A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka by Bruce Kapferer

A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka

Bruce Kapferer

388 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective medium-paced
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Stressing the importance of performance in the organization of ritual experience, Kapferer reveals that music, dance, and comicdrama are key aesthetic forms in Sinhalese demon ceremonies.

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