LEADER 02801nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910813092003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-8508-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000347187 035 $a(EBL)310275 035 $a(OCoLC)476093495 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157276 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157276 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10139153 035 $a(PQKB)11607675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310275 035 $a(OCoLC)191934239 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse39157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310275 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159479 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523106 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000347187 100 $a19930625d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFormations of ritual $ecolonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil /$fDavid Scott 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-2256-6 311 $a0-8166-2255-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; On Transliteration and Usage; Introduction; Part I. Ethnographic Topoi; Part II. Colonial Discourses; Part III. Reconstructing Anthropological Objects; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index 330 $aYaktovil 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. 606 $aSinhalese (Sri Lankan people)$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aSinhalese (Sri Lankan people)$xReligion 606 $aMedicine, Ayurvedic$zSri Lanka$zDevinuvara$xReligious aspects 606 $aExorcism$zSri Lanka$zDevinuvara 607 $aDevinuvara (Sri Lanka)$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aSinhalese (Sri Lankan people)$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aSinhalese (Sri Lankan people)$xReligion. 615 0$aMedicine, Ayurvedic$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aExorcism 676 $a306.6/943438/095493 700 $aScott$b David$f1958-$01712821 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813092003321 996 $aFormations of ritual$94105302 997 $aUNINA