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Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil
David Scott
Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil
David Scott
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.
336 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 31, 1994 |
ISBN13 | 9780816622566 |
Publishers | University of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 449 g |
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