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

By:

Kapferer, Bruce

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Routledge 1983Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxii, 388pISBN:

9780854966042

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DDC classification:

133.427095493 KAP

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Philosophy	133.427095493 KAP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003158

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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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