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A celebration of demons: Exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka
A celebration of demons Exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka Author:Bruce Kapferer 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 psychothe... more »rapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.« less
ISBN-13: 9780253313263 ISBN-10: 0253313260 Pages:293 Edition:1st Midland Book ed Rating: