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Dr Marina Roseman

Photo: Dr Marina Roseman

MA (Colombia), PhD (Cornell)

Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology

On Leave

Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3336
E-mail: mroseman@qub.ac.uk

Office: 13UQ.302

Dr Roseman joined the School in 2004 as Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Anthropology. She is a member of the School's Teaching and Research Committee and is Research Associate at Indiana University's Departments of Anthropology and Folklore and Ethnomusicology.

Research Interests

Recipient of the esteemed Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment of the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Foundation, and Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dr. Roseman is known for her research on music and healing, cosmology and ecology with the Temiars, Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia.  Author of Healing Sounds of the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine (U. California, 1991), she also produced the CD Dream Songs and Healing Sounds: In the Rainforests of Malaysia (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1996) and has published numerous articles in journals, including the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2007).  She is currently studying how Temiars respond and contribute to global changes and modernity in the realms of dance, movement, music, healing, ritual, and performance; the relationship of autochthonous and indigenous peoples and the colonial, postcolonial, and evolving nation-state; and the new urban Malaysian artists taking inspiration from the dynamic heritage of Malaysia's animist, pre-wahabi (pre-fundamentalist) Islamic, Hindu, and Buddish arts and cultures for the book Engaging the Spirits of Modernity (forth.). Most recently, she has consulted with the National Institute of Folklore, Hanoi, Vietnam, and the Vietnam Institute of Culture and Information, and presented for the Chief Minister’s Office of Sabah, Malaysia on issues surrounding tourism and the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage.

Select Publications

'Blowing cross the crest of Mount Galeng: winds of the voice, winds of the spirits' in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute13 (S1) (2007).

'A fourfold framework for producing sociohistorically specific, clinically relevant, cross-culturally resonant, and biomedically viable research on music and medicine' in Ben Koen and Gregory Barz (eds) Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 2007).

'The Canned Sardine Spirit Takes the Mic.' in Jennifer Post (ed.) Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, (New York: Routledge, 2006).

'Music et guerison (Music and Healing)' in Jean-Jacques Nattiez (ed.) Musiques: une encyclopedie pour le XXIe siecle (Actes Sud, 2005).

'Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: Temiar Songs for a Changing World' in David Howes (ed.) Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader  (Berg, 2004).

'Homelands and Crossroads: An Experiment in Intercultural Collaboration' in Judy Mitoma, Ricardo D. Trumillos, Anoosh Jorjorian (eds), Narrative/Performance: Cross-Cultural Encounters at APPEX (The Regents of the University of California, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, 2004).

'Making Sense out of Modernity' in Mark Nichter and Margaret Lock (eds), New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie, (Routledge, 2002).

'Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: the Temiars' in Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel (eds), Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies, Vol. 6 (Bergin & Garvey, 2001).