Book Details
Kapferer focuses on sorcery among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka to explore how the art of sorcery is in fact deeply connected to social practices and lived experiences such as birth, death, sickness, and war. He describes in great detail the central ritual of exorcism, a study which opens up new avenues of thought that challenge anthropological approaches to such topics as the psychological forces of emotion and the dynamics of power. Overcoming both "orientalist" bias and postmodern permissiveness, Kapferer compellingly reframes sorcery as a pragmatic, conscious practice which, through its dynamic of destruction and creation, makes it possible for humans to reconstruct repeatedly their relation to the world.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Kapferer, Bruce
- ISBN13 9780226424132
- ISBN10 0226424138
- Pages 367
- Published 1996
The feast of the sorcerer. Practices of consciousness and power
- Author Bruce Kapferer
- Publisher CHICAGO
- ISBN 9780226424132
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