Songs of Our Spirits
Possession and Historical Imagination among the Cham in Cambodia
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 6039799 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Ing-Britt Trankell, Ing‐britt Trankell (Uppsala University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2003 |
| Volumen | 4 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 31-46 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Asian Ethnicity (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1463-1369 • E-ISSN: 1469-2953 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14631360301645 |
| OpenAlex | W1964646574 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 10 |
| Referencias citadas | 14 |
The currently flourishing spirit possession cult among a group of Cham in Cambodia has multiple cultural meanings. On the most explicit level, the ceremonies aim at healing a suffering person whose condition medical treatment has proved insufficient to cure. But since the state of health or illness is intimately connected to the state of the person's primary social relations, both the 'patient' and his or her close kin are all symbolically purified from evil in the course of the ritual proceedings. The mediums are possessed by spirits of members of the royal court of the historical Champa kingdom. Through the representations of the semi-mythical past of Champa, more specifically its royalty and court culture, the possession cult also tells us that healing is a question of bringing present-day Cham into concordance with their ethnic origins, and a question of symbolically reunifying ethnicity and lost national autonomy. It is suggested that the historical imagination displayed in the ceremonies addresses not only the ancient military defeats of the Cham by the Vietnamese, but also the people's more recent sufferings under the Khmer Rouge, and that the cult provides an arena for coming to terms with both ancient and recent experiences of victimisation as well as complicity, suffering as well as guilt, and for expressing ethnic consciousness and pride
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Complicity · Cult · Ethnic group · Exorcism · Flourishing · Pride · Sociology · Vietnamese · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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The spirit in the machine
Understanding the Cham Identity in Mainland Southeast Asia
Transcending ethnicity through photography
Popular Songs, Melodies from the Dead
Immaterial Alliances
| Obras citantes distintas | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,43 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2003 - 2022 (20) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 9 |