A Celebration of Demons (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780854966042)

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.

Author: Bruce Kapferer
ISBN-10: 0854966048
ISBN-13: 9780854966042
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/11/1991
Pages: 426
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.46w x 1.10d