Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Feast of the SorcererCondition: NewSubtitle: Practices of Consciousness and PowerEAN: 9780226424132ISBN: 9780226424132Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/15/1997Description: Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development, along with magic and witchcraft. This text argues, however, that sorcery practices reveal critical insights into how consciousness is formed, and how human beings constitute their social and political realities. Kapferer focuses on sorcery among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka to explore how the art of sorcery is deeply connected to social practices and lived experiences such as birth, death, sickness, and war. He describes in detail the central ritualism of exorcism, a study which challenges anthropological approaches to such topics as the sources of emotion and the dynamics of power. Seeking to overcome both "orientalist" bias and postmodern permissiveness, the book 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 23mmItem Length: 16mmItem Width: 3mmItem Weight: 680gAuthor: Bruce KapfererGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 1997 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Feast of the Sorcerer
Title: The Feast of the Sorcerer
Subtitle: Practices of Consciousness and Power
EAN: 9780226424132
ISBN: 9780226424132
Release Date: 10/15/1997
Release Year: 1997
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 388 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Feast of the Sorcerer : Practices of Consciousness and Power
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Magick Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Cults
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 1997
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Social Science
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Bruce Kapferer
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
