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

Inglese · Tascabile

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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.
To do this, Scott describes the discursive apparatus through which yakku are positioned in the moral universe of Sinhala, traces the appearance of yakku and yaktovil in Western discourse, evaluates the contribution of these figures and this ceremony in anthropology, and attempts to show how the larger anthropology of Buddhism, in which the anthropology of yaktovil is embedded, might be reconfigured. Finally, he offers a rereading of the ritual in terms of the historically selfconscious approach he proposes.The result points to a major rethinking of the historical nature not only of the objects, but also of the concepts through which they are constructed in anthropological discourse.

David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

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Dr David Scott works at the Open University where his research interests include the ethical and political foundations of penal abolitionism, human rights and social justice and critical approaches to poverty, prisons and punishment. He is a former editor of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice and the co-founding editor of the European Group Journal Justice, Power and Resistance. He also worked at Edge Hill University, the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, the University of Central Lancashire and Liverpool John Moores University.

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Scott's investigation of "Yaktovil" within the Sri Lankan Sinhala cosmology, also inquires into the ways in which anthropology (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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Autori David Scott
Editore University Of Minnesota Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 31.03.1994
 
EAN 9780816622566
ISBN 978-0-8166-2256-6
Pagine 336
Dimensioni 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
Peso 488 g
Categorie Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni

Anthropologie, Sri Lanka, Stammesreligionen

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