A Celebration Of Demons: Exorcism And The Aesthetics Of Healing In Sri Lanka
by Bruce Kapferer /
1983 / English / PDF
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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 and
the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western
psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and
original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.
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 and
the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western
psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and
original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.