Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans

ISBN-13: 9780367519247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 174 str.

Gananath Obeyesekere

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.