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Paperback Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans Book

ISBN: 0367556189

ISBN13: 9780367556181

Placating the Demons: Ritual Practices among Sri Lankans

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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. It looks at issues such as misfortunes caused by demons (yaksa dosa), an important ceremonial practice known as the puna-yāgaya, ideas pertaining to spirit possession, trance, and mediums. It also deals with classical Ayurvedic theories of disease, urban...

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