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Pascal Couderc, « Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An ethnographic study of Iban shamanic chants, Clifford Sather », Moussons, ID : 10.4000/moussons.2528
Sometimes, “overloaded” with the illnesses that he has taken upon himself in healing his patients, the Iban shaman falls ill. He must then perform a rite to ease his burden, “bailing” it like water out of a boat. It certainly is a heavy burden that, so to say, Clifford Sather has eased off himself by writing this book, the materials for which he began to collect in the Saribas region of Sarawak twenty-five years ago. The corpus presented here, totaling some 3,300 lines of chants with interlin...