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Formations of ritual [[electronic resource] ] : colonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil / / David Scott



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Autore: Scott David <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Formations of ritual [[electronic resource] ] : colonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil / / David Scott Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
Disciplina: 306.6/943438/095493
Soggetto topico: Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) - Rites and ceremonies
Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) - Religion
Medicine, Ayurvedic - Sri Lanka - Devinuvara - Religious aspects
Exorcism - Sri Lanka - Devinuvara
Soggetto geografico: Devinuvara (Sri Lanka) Religious life and customs
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological-often, specifically colonial-objects.
Titolo autorizzato: Formations of ritual  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-8508-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457373303321
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