A Celebration of Demons

ISBN-13: 9780367717292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 426 str.

Bruce Kapferer

Opis

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 cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms.

Recenzje

Kapferer wonderfully captures for us the mood, the life, smack and colour of exorcist rituals. - Victor Turner

Spis treści

List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations, Preface to Second Edition, Foreword, Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. Exorcism, Class and Change in Urban Sri Lanka, 3. Exorcists, 4. Demonic Illness: Diagnosis and Social Context, 5. Exorcisms and the Symbolic Identity of Women, 6. The Demonic Illusion: Demons and the Cosmic Hierarchy, 7. The Exorcism of the Great Cemetery Demon: Event and Structure in Major Exorcisms, 8. Music, Dance and Trance, 9. The Comedy of Gods and Demons, 10. Epilogue: A Celebration of Demons, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Subject Index, Author Index

O autorze

Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen