Formations of Ritual : Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil /

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Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Scott's investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scott, David, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Riten.
Volksgeneeskunde.
Boeddhisme.
Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) > Religion.
Medicine, Ayurvedic > Religious aspects.
Exorcism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Exorcisme > Sri Lanka > Devinuwara.
Āyurveda > Sri Lanka > Devinuwara > Aspect religieux.
Cingalais (Peuple du Sri Lanka) > Religion.
Cingalais (Peuple du Sri Lanka) > Rites et ceremonies.
Exorcism > Sri Lanka > Devinuvara.
Medicine, Ayurvedic > Sri Lanka > Devinuvara > Religious aspects.
Sri Lanka > Devinuvara.
Devinuwara (Sri Lanka) > Vie religieuse.
Devinuvara (Sri Lanka) > Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Scott's investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological-often, specifically colonial-objects.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780816685080

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