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The Feast of the Sorcerer
Bruce Kapferer
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Paperback. Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development, along with magic and witchcraft. This text argues, however, that sorcery practices reveal critical insights into how consciousness is formed, and how human beings constitute their social and political realities. Num Pages: 384 pages, 4 colour plates, 18 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: HRQX2; HRQX5; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 670.
Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development, along with magic and witchcraft. This text argues, however, that sorcery practices reveal critical insights into how consciousness is formed, and how human beings constitute their social and political realities. Kapferer focuses on sorcery among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka to explore how the art of sorcery is deeply connected to social practices and lived experiences such as birth, death, sickness, and war. He describes in detail the central ritualism of exorcism, a study which challenges anthropological approaches to such topics as the sources of emotion and the ... Read more
Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development, along with magic and witchcraft. This text argues, however, that sorcery practices reveal critical insights into how consciousness is formed, and how human beings constitute their social and political realities. Kapferer focuses on sorcery among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka to explore how the art of sorcery is deeply connected to social practices and lived experiences such as birth, death, sickness, and war. He describes in detail the central ritualism of exorcism, a study which challenges anthropological approaches to such topics as the sources of emotion and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226424132
SKU
V9780226424132
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