Linda Connor
Author
Language
English
Description
Communication Skills for Community College Students was created to meet the needs of students enrolled in technical and career-oriented college programs, as well as workers already employed in business and industry. The primary focus of this text enables you to develop communication skills that will ensure your success on the job. This reader-friendly text is designed to provide you with a solid working understanding of communication that applies...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Unlike many spirit mediums, Jero Tapakan practices as a masseuse once every three days, when possession is not auspicious. This film focuses on Jero's treatment of Ida Bagus, a member of the nobility from a neighboring town. Jero has been treating her client for sterility and seizures. She begins work this day with religious preparations and the assembling of traditional medicines. Treatment includes a thorough massage, administration of eyedrops,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Balinese Trance Seance - Bringing offerings of rice, flowers, and woven coconut leaves, clients visit Jero in her household shrine to determine the cause of their son's death. Jero lights an incense brazier, sprinkles holy water, and recites mantras as preliminaries to trance. Several ancestors and finally the young son speak through her voice, revealing the nature of his premature death (witchcraft) and his wishes for cremation. In contrast to...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough resources to cremate their dead, who are buried in the meantime. In 1978 many more cremations than usual were carried out because of the great purification cermony, Eka Dasa Rudra, held at Bali's main temple, Besakih, in 1979. Religious officials recommended that all Balinese cleanse the island by cremating...