A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka

ISBN-13: 9780854966042 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 426 str.

Bruce Kapferer

Opis

This series aims to reflect the richness and vitality of contemporary work in anthropology. Volumes included explore not only current developments within social and cultural anthropology, but also the interfaces between these areas and such fields as biological anthropology and archaeology. They challenge established conventions and represent a significant advance in a range of areas of anthropological enquiry which are of wide interest to an international readership.

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