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

• Autore: Scott David <1958->
• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8166-8508-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784383403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II