{"id":5950,"date":"2021-01-11T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=5950"},"modified":"2021-01-11T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:03:38","slug":"book-review-a-borneo-healing-romance-ritual-storytelling-and-the-sugi-sakit-a-saribas-iban-rite-of-healing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=5950","title":{"rendered":"Book review: A Borneo healing romance: Ritual storytelling and the Sugi Sakit: A Saribas Iban rite of healing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Dr. Clifford Sather is known for his ethnographic works on the Iban in Sarawak and the Bajau in Sabah. His Seeds of Play, Words of Power<\/em> (2001) is a major work on Iban shamanic chants. The book under review here is about an Iban healing ritual called the Sugi Sakit. Such a ritual had died out about 28 years ago. In 2003, Dr. Sather was lucky to get Renang anak Jabing, an Iban priest bard, to perform the Sugi Sakit for a record. This is a labour of love that involves tedious work of recording, translating, analysing and writing. Only a very committed ethnographer would spend so much effort to finally produce this book of more than 500 pages, which contributes greatly to preserving a fascinating aspect of Iban cultural heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EXCERPT Dr. Clifford Sather is known for his ethnographic works on the Iban in Sarawak and the Bajau in Sabah. His Seeds of Play, Words of Power (2001) is a major work on Iban shamanic chants. The book under review here is about an Iban healing ritual called the Sugi Sakit. 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