Format:
Online-Ressource (xxxi, 300 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816622558
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0816622566
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9780816622566
Content:
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. Scott's 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; On Transliteration and Usage; Introduction; Part I. Ethnographic Topoi; Part II. Colonial Discourses; Part III. Reconstructing Anthropological Objects; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816622559
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Formations of Ritual : Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil
Language:
English
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