A Celebration of Demons. Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12026552 |
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| Authors | Kokan Sasaki (corresponding author), Sasaki Kokan |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 329-329 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | A celebration of demons: Exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka, Bruce Kapferer, 1991 |
| Venue | Asian Folklore Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0385-2342 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1178638 |
| OpenAlex | W1997744985 |
| Language | EN |
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
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Exorcism · Literature · South asia · Sri lanka · History · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Dancing into Being
Instersticios de realidades
A dança das Aiabás
The construction of meaning in religious healing
Living and dying exhibition at the british museum
L'art de la multimodalité
The effectiveness of words
Spirits as Concepts
Medicalist, Physiological, and Sociological Explanations
Historical and Ethnographic Setting
The Research Community
Play, Anthropology of
Material Culture and Healing Practice
The Ontological Turn
Freud among the Orang Sakai. The Father Archetype, the Talking Cure, and the Transference in a Sumatran Shamanic Healing Complex
Symbolists who speak to themselves
Rethinking Historical Change in Sri Lankan Ritual
The Fragility of Healing
Healing through Images
Saved by the Saint
Status and Context
Pandaih and Sita
Jinn, Psychiatry and Contested Notions of Misfortune among East London Bangladeshis
Ritual healing and mental health in India
What is the matter with transcendence? On the place of religion in the new anthropology of ethics★
Cosmologies
Cross-Cultural Articulations of War Magic and Warrior Religion
Exorcism
A Politics of Ontology
Rheumatic Irony
Buddhism, the Asokan Persona, and the Galactic Polity
Entertaining a Dangerous Guest
What Can the Chemical Hold
“Maybe I Made Up the Whole Thing”
The Pragmatics of “madness”
Brahmanism Abroad
Échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l'espace rituel
Bodily intimacy and ritual healing in women's tantric retreats
Firewalking
Dancing into Being
La etnografía del estado en la escuela de Manchester
Empowering the Body and 'Noble Death
Out of the Ordinary
Agency, Identity, and the Emergence of Ritual Experience
Anthropology, Politics, and Place in Sri Lanka
Ideology at work
Buddhism By Other Means
Of sacraments, sacramentals and anthropology
Creating medicine on a swing
Obvious pretence
Social Aesthetics and The Doon School
How Magic Works
Divergent Discourses
From the Alien to the Other
Jeg' Og 'Vi
"Medical Discourse" in Anthropological Context
Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing
Incident autour d'un poteau
Exploring the Work of Victor Turner
Moral narratives of state policy
Pigs, Cassowaries, and the Gift of the Flesh
Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan
The drum is the shaman, the spear guides his voice
Theorising the 'human subject' in biomedical research
Sensitization to illness and the risk of death
Reclaiming drama in tourism research
The Ritualization of Rehabilitation
Malay medicine, Malay person
Medicine for the heart
Religion and ethnic ideology
Negotiating With Demons
Rites of the living, transformations of the dead
Transforming Possession
The Politics and Poetics of Dance
Rethinking Relations and Animism
Demonic Violence and Moral Panic in Postwar Sri Lanka
The 'onto-logics' of perspectival multi-naturalism
Mahishi's rage
Making God Present
Because I was in pain, I just wanted to be treated
Painful Places
Tecnologia Do Ebó
The Gendering of Religious Experience
Dynamics of movement
Cultural dimensions of hot, cold and sema in Sinhalese health culture
Playing with perspectives
Cultivating the Body
Post-war Blood
The Politics of Madness and Spirit Possession in Northern India
The Kundum Festival in Ghana
The Mind Possessed
Anthropological Epochés
Imitation Is Far More Than the Sincerest of Flattery
Igniting food assemblages in Sri Lanka
Articulation of physical and social bodies in Kerala
Royal science' and civil war in Sri Lanka
Spirit Possession Perceived and Performed in Rural Rajasthan
A Case of Contagious Legitimacy
The Dancing Bride
Catholic Saints and the Hindu Village Pantheon in Rural Tamil Nadu, India
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