The Feast of the Sorcerer Practices of Consciousness and Power
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/1997
Kapferer focuses on sorcery among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka to explore how the art of sorcery is in fact deeply connected to social practices and lived experiences such as birth, death, sickness, and war. He describes in great detail the central ritual of exorcism, a study that opens up new avenues of thought that challenge anthropological approaches to such topics as the psychological forces of emotion and the dynamics of power. Overcoming both "orientalist" bias and postmodern permissiveness, Kapferer reframes sorcery as a pragmatic, conscious practice that, through its dynamic of destruction and creation, makes it possible for humans to reconstruct repeatedly their relation to the world.
"An inspired experiment in the phenomenology of ritual". -- Marshall Sahlins
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