A Celebration of Demons (Explorations in Anthropology)

by Bruce Kapferer (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $51.24

  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 preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques and aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms.