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.
| ISBN: | 9780854966042 |
| Publication date: | 11th February 1991 |
| Author: | Bruce Kapferer |
| Publisher: | Berg Publishers an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 426 pages |
| Series: | Explorations in Anthropology |
| Genres: |
Society and culture: general |