Formations of ritual : colonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil

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Formations of ritual : colonial and anthropological discourses on the Sinhala yaktovil

David Scott

University of Minnesota Press, c1994

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 283-293

Includes index

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ISBN 9780816622559

内容説明

"Yaktovil" is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the influence of a pantheon of malevolent, supernatural figures known as "Yakku". Anthropology, traditionally, has articulated this ceremony with the concept metaphor of "demonism". Yet, as David Scott demonstrates, this usage of "demonism" reveals more about the discourse of anthropology than it does about the ritual itself. Scott's investigation of "Yaktovil" and "Yakku", within the Sinhala cosmology, is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology - by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe - tends to reproduce ideological, often specifically colonial, objects. To do this, Scott describes the discursive apparatus through which "Yakku" are positioned in the moral universe of Sinhala, traces the appearance of "Yakku" and "Yaktovil" in Western discourse, evaluates the contribution of these figures and this ceremony in anthropology, and attempts to show how the larger anthropology of Buddhism - in which the anthropology of "Yaktovil" is embedded - might be reconfigured. Finally, he offers a re-reading of the ritual in terms of the historically self-conscious approach he proposes. The result points to a major rethinking of the historical nature of, not just the objects, but the concepts through which they are constructed in anthropological discourse.

目次

  • Part I Ethnographic Topoi situating Yakku: malign glances - Distiya and the ethics of composure
  • Tovil Natima (the dancing of Tovil). Part II Colonial discourses: exorcisms and demonic experience, anthropology and Yaktovil
  • colonial Christian discourse, demonism, and Sinhala religion. Part III Reconstructing anthropological objects: historicizing tradition - Buddhism and the discourse of Yakka
  • the ends and strategy of Yaktovil.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780816622566

内容説明

Formations of Ritual was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Anthropology, traditionally, has articulated this ceremony with the concept metaphor of "demonism." Yet, as David Scott demonstrates in this provocative book, this use of "demonism" reveals more about the discourse of anthropology than it does about the ritual itself. His investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological-often, specifically colonial-objects. To do this, Scott describes the discursive apparatus through which yakku are positioned in the moral universe of Sinhala, traces the appearance of yakku and yaktovil in Western discourse, evaluates the contribution of these figures and this ceremony in anthropology, and attempts to show how the larger anthropology of Buddhism, in which the anthropology of yaktovil is embedded, might be reconfigured. Finally, he offers a rereading of the ritual in terms of the historically selfconscious approach he proposes.The result points to a major rethinking of the historical nature not only of the objects, but also of the concepts through which they are constructed in anthropological discourse.David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

目次

  • Part I Ethnographic Topoi situating Yakku: malign glances - Distiya and the ethics of composure
  • Tovil Natima (the dancing of Tovil). Part II Colonial discourses: exorcisms and demonic experience, anthropology and Yaktovil
  • colonial Christian discourse, demonism, and Sinhala religion. Part III Reconstructing anthropological objects: historicizing tradition - Buddhism and the discourse of Yakka
  • the ends and strategy of Yaktovil.

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