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Tun Jugah Foundation : A BORNEO HEALING ROMANCE RITUAL STORYTELLING AND THE SUGI SAKIT : A SARIBAS IBAN RITE OF HEALING.

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Call no.
: 305.89923059522/SAT
Author
: Clifford Sather
Contributor
: Georgiana Usun Jok
Summary
The book explores ritual healing, storytelling, performance, oral tradition and shamanism with a focus on the ritual of Sugi Sakit. It provides important historical and cultural documentation of Iban communities in Saribas in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The author focuses on Sugi Sakit, an Iban healing ritual during which love stories and other romance narratives are sung by a healer in order to cure an ill person. Sather’s presentation of the rituals contains a detailed analysis of the words sung and verbalized, providing the reader, as well as people of Iban communities, with a fascinating portrait of the richness and diversity of Saribas rituals.