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Lununa belongs to small tribe of 20 families called the Tau't Duram.
As a balyan (shaman), Lununa regularly conducts healings by entering
a trance through singing and chanting. In the last few years the
Tau't Duram have had to rely on slash-and-burn farming to augment
their hunting and gathering. I watched as Lununa conducted a ritual
for a patient. His diagnosis for the illness: the patient had angered
the mountain spirit by burning the land. This struck me, since Lununa
himself had become a slash-and-burn farmer. (Tau't Duram) |