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

By Bruce Kapferer

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
1983
ISBN
0253313260, 9780253313263
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18100882 bytes)
Edition
1st Midland Book ed
Pages
293\346
Time added
2013-12-07 03:45:26

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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