Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans by Obeyesekere, Gananath

Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367519247)

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Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans by Obeyesekere, Gananath

Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans

$200.00
Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans by Obeyesekere, Gananath

Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
ISBN-10: 0367519240
ISBN-13: 9780367519247
Publisher: Routledge India
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 174
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Gananath Obeyesekere
By Gananath Obeyesekere
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Gananath Obeyesekere is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA, where he has taught for 20 years. He has also taught at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, as well as The University of Washington, Seattle and The University of California, San Diego. He has given public lectures in the US, Canada, Britain, India, China and several places in Europe.

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