Friday, June 17, 2005

the spirit medium, rangoon



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the spirit medium, rangoon


In Burmese they're called "nat kadaws" - women who have been chosen as brides by spirits known as nats. They "channel" the nats at all-night all-day ceremonies where they go into convulsive trances, forecast the future and give advice. It's so wild they have to have assistants to keep them from hurting themselves.

Burma / Myanmar 1997

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