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A celebration of demons: Exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka

By Bruce Kapferer

Book information

Year
1983
ISBN
0253313260, 9780253313263
LCC
BF1559
Open Library ID
OL22187632M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18111440 bytes)
Edition
1st Midland Book ed
Pages
293\346
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.

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