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Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil

Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil

Scott, David

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0816622566
ISBN13: 9780816622566
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pr
Published: Mar 31 1994
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

Formations of Ritual was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Anthropology, traditionally, has articulated this ceremony with the concept metaphor of demonism. Yet, as David Scott demonstrates in this provocative book, this use of demonism reveals more about the discourse of anthropology than it does about the ritual itself. His investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological-often, specifically colonial-objects.

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