02837nam 2200649Ia 450 991045737330332120200520144314.00-8166-8508-8(CKB)1000000000347187(EBL)310275(OCoLC)476093495(SSID)ssj0000157276(PQKBManifestationID)11149917(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157276(PQKBWorkID)10139153(PQKB)11607675(MiAaPQ)EBC310275(OCoLC)191934239(MdBmJHUP)muse39157(Au-PeEL)EBL310275(CaPaEBR)ebr10159479(CaONFJC)MIL523106(EXLCZ)99100000000034718719930625d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFormations of ritual[electronic resource] colonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil /David ScottMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19941 online resource (334 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2256-6 0-8166-2255-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; On Transliteration and Usage; Introduction; Part I. Ethnographic Topoi; Part II. Colonial Discourses; Part III. Reconstructing Anthropological Objects; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; IndexYaktovil 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.Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people)Rites and ceremoniesSinhalese (Sri Lankan people)ReligionMedicine, AyurvedicSri LankaDevinuvaraReligious aspectsExorcismSri LankaDevinuvaraDevinuvara (Sri Lanka)Religious life and customsElectronic books.Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people)Rites and ceremonies.Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people)Religion.Medicine, AyurvedicReligious aspects.Exorcism306.6/943438/095493Scott David1958-998660MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457373303321Formations of ritual2290925UNINA