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.
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