A Celebration of Demons

A Celebration of Demons
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781000323108
ISBN-13 : 1000323102
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Book Synopsis A Celebration of Demons by : Bruce Kapferer

Download or read book A Celebration of Demons written by Bruce Kapferer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.


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