Gananath Obeyesekere

Placating the Demons (eBook, PDF)

Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically examines dominant ceremonial practices in Sri Lanka. It presents key ideas and symbolic systems that exist to this day, in similar shapes or in different guises.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000457179
• Artikelnr.: 62624205

Autorenporträt

Gananath Obeyesekere is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA, where he has taught for 20 years. He has also taught at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, as well as The University of Washington, Seattle and The University of California, San Diego. He has given public lectures in the US, Canada, Britain, India, China and several places in Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Sanni Demons: Collective Representations of Disease in Sri
Lanka 2. On Perjury: The Ritual of the Leopard Pot 3. The Spirits of the
Dead: A Psycho-Cultural Exegesis of a Case Study of an Exorcism 4. Sorcery
and Premeditated Murder: the Canalization of Aggression 5. From Demon to
God: The Apotheosis of Huniyan