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Placating the Demons
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Placating the Demons

Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans
BookPaperback
Ranking172371inSozialwissenschaften
CHF77.90

Description

This book critically examines dominant ceremonial practices in Sri Lanka. It presents key ideas and symbolic systems that exist to this day, in similar shapes or in different guises.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-367-55618-1
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
PublisherRoutledge
Publishing date16/11/2021
Pages174 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 156 mm, Height 234 mm, Thickness 10 mm
Weight268 g
Article no.43816552
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.36186000
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Author

Gananath Obeyesekere is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA, where he has taught for 20 years. He has also taught at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, as well as The University of Washington, Seattle and The University of California, San Diego. He has given public lectures in the US, Canada, Britain, India, China and several places in Europe.