Formations of ritual : colonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil

Formations of ritual : colonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil /

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 a...

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Main Author: Scott, David, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994
Subjects:
Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) > Religion.
Medicine, Ayurvedic > Sri Lanka > Devinuvara > Religious aspects.
Exorcism > Sri Lanka > Devinuvara.
Devinuvara (Sri Lanka) > Religious life and customs.
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