...Ann P. McCauley Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide . By Luh Ketut Suryani and Gordon D. Jensen . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvi, 264 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Richard A. O'Connor Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today . By Ruth-Inge Heinze . Bangkok : White Lotus Co. , 1988 . x, 406 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 435 labor force. The arrangement also allows...

...Claire Holt Trance in Bali . By Jane Belo . New York : Columbia University Press , 1960 , xiii , 284 . Illustrations, Index-Glossary. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 121 gist, a lifetime student of Balinese culture, is eminently...

... are be is completely undiscussed. It is interesting those devotees who "carry kavati," their flesh that no work on Indian music besides his or tongues pierced by fishhooks and skewers, own on North Indian Ragas is cited in the while in a state of trance or possession. They bibliography, and none on Gregorian chant...

... discussion (chaps. 2 4), King details Buddhagosa's systematic formulations and finds that the "formless-state meditation bases" of yoga have been appended to the four jhanic states of trance traceable to the Buddha. But, despite the inclusion of these yogic techniques, the entire formula remains subject...

... An Ethnographic Film Monograph. By LINDA C O N N O R , PATSY ASCH, and TIMOTHY ASCH. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xii, 284 pp. (paper). It is difficult to think about Bali without conjuring images of trance, dance, and ritual on a spectacular scale: from the deep trance of Rangda and Barong's...

... anthropologically to the "strangeness within order" (p. 239) and to the ability, Walter Benjamin's warnings about the decline of storytelling (pp. 205 ff.) notwithstanding, to communicate experience. ELIZABETH COVILLE Hamline University Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality...

... was Pak Long, a master of the dying shamanistic art of Main Peteri trancing. While serving as his apprentice, she was able to record the texts of actual therapeutic seances rather than eliciting scripts of performances after the fact, as earlier researchers had done. As a participant in this shaman's...

... painting and woodcarving. As a whole, the book offers the specialist a suggestive, though tantalizingly brief, glimpse at the general conclusions Goris has reached, and for the general reader a trustworthy introduction to the delightful, curious, and complicated world of Bali. Chicago HILDRED GEERTZ Trance...

... temple, where they are placed inside. The union of the god and his consort represents the culmination of the procession, during which many of the thousands of Buddhist and Hindu pilgrims achieve trance, weep and laugh with joy, or worship with intense concentration.9 The Kataragama pilgrimage thus...

... society represented in the book manages in one way or another to elude the classifications and definitions. Even the presence of trance is not totally definitive: Gurung shamans do not have trance, yet they cure illness by recapturing wandering souls, their funerals involve symbolism of flight to the sky...

... and Catlin's video recordings of the contemporary versions of types Bake had studied, along with some types Bake did not document, and interpretive comments. The genres viewed include, from Karnataka: Haransikari ritual chant and trance scenes, Bhuta devil dancer; from Tamilnadu: Toda funeral, Kota musicians...

... : Development Studies Unit Report No. 23, Department of Social Anthropology. Stockholm University , 1992 . 99 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1334 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of the individual and event. Still, this descriptive data adds to work on Balinese trance...

... Lee examines two forms of Korean shamanism with respect to the phenomenon of trance possession. Whereas "charismatic" (achieved status) female shamans from the northern part of the peninsula (called naerim mudang) enter into ecstatic trance states, "hereditary" (ascribed status) male and female...

...Guy Gran BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 421 non-trance alike. This leads King to make his pivotal assertion that, although yogic modes of meditation were thoroughly incorporated in Buddhagosa's system, they were never considered to be coextensive with the direct experience of Nibbana. He writes...

... of trance, dance, and ritual on a spectacular scale: from the deep trance of Rangda and Barong's followers in Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's classic 1930s film {Trance and Dance in Bali) to the more contemporary Geertzian conception of "the theatre state." One of the contributions of this collaborative...

..., that are analyzed and treated by Chinese "sacred medicine."5 Many cures concentrate on getting the "soul" back.6 Third, trance a state common to folk practitioners in many parts of southern China is invariably explained in terms of "soul" travel or spirit possession.7 It is safe to say, therefore, that we cannot...

... of agrarian change to new heights and should set the standard for debate in years to come. ROBERT HEFNER Boston University Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today. By R U T H -INGE HEINZE . Bangkok: White Lotus Co., 1988. x, 406 pp. $35.00. The title of this work tells much, yet readers will find it more...

... of "The Sutra." When the final trance of the Bodhisattva and his crowning enlightenment are described, the attenuating oscillations of consciousness amongst ten stages of trance carry a close resemblance to the clinical picture of agony and physiological death. Certainty in features is guaranteed by immediate...

... says, "Scriptures and dogmas are not by themselves revelation but only an attempt to give an account of a revelation," (p. 305, cf. p. 302); "While in a trance a mystic does not know what he is experiencing; but after coming out of the trance, he ...