On Demonology And Witchcraft In Ceylon

Author : Dandris de Silva Gooneratne
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120613096
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Demonology and Witchcraft in Ceylon written by Dandris de Silva Gooneratne and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Society's Proceedings.

Author : Bruce Kapferer
Publisher : Midland Books
ISBN 13 : 9780253203045
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Celebration of Demons written by Bruce Kapferer and published by Midland Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive and skilled (color) essay on Navajo and Hopi people, their life and land. First published in 1983, an anthropological study of Sinhalese exorcism rituals. Emphasizes the importance of music, dance, and comic opera in organizing the performance. The second edition contains a new preface and introduction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John D. Rogers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000856410
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka written by John D. Rogers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (1987) examines Sri Lanka’s justice system under British rule, and concentrates on two of its aspects: the effectiveness of the administration of law and order, and the relationship between crime and social change. It argues that the colonial judicial system did penetrate rural areas, but did not operate in the way the British intended. Instead, Sri Lankans adapted the state institutions so that they functioned more effectively within indigenous culture.

Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Books: Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000457176
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placating the Demons written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines dominant ceremonial practices in Sri Lanka. It presents key ideas and symbolic systems that exist to this day, in similar shapes or in different guises. It looks at issues such as misfortunes caused by demons (yaksa dosa), an important ceremonial practice known as the puna-yāgaya, ideas pertaining to spirit possession, trance, and mediums. It also deals with classical Ayurvedic theories of disease, urban ceremonial practices such as cases of the apotheoses from demon to divinity, as well as multiple forms of Buddhist ceremonial practices that are part of the Sri Lankan consciousness and have found their way into public cultural performances in Sri Lanka. As a comprehensive volume on ceremonial practices in Sri Lanka, this work will be useful for scholars and researchers in cultural studies, sociology, social-anthropology, and particularly those interested in myths and rituals in South Asia.

Author : Alison Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351544381
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Alison Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles.

Author : Bruno Nettl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824049461
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia : the Indian subcontinent written by Bruno Nettl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816622566
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Formations of Ritual written by David Scott and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formations of Ritual was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. 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. Anthropology, traditionally, has articulated this ceremony with the concept metaphor of "demonism." Yet, as David Scott demonstrates in this provocative book, this use of "demonism" reveals more about the discourse of anthropology than it does about the ritual itself. His 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. To do this, Scott describes the discursive apparatus through which yakku are positioned in the moral universe of Sinhala, traces the appearance of yakku and yaktovil in Western discourse, evaluates the contribution of these figures and this ceremony in anthropology, and attempts to show how the larger anthropology of Buddhism, in which the anthropology of yaktovil is embedded, might be reconfigured. Finally, he offers a rereading of the ritual in terms of the historically selfconscious approach he proposes.The result points to a major rethinking of the historical nature not only of the objects, but also of the concepts through which they are constructed in anthropological discourse. David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.