The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power

Kapferer, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0226424138 ISBN 13: 9780226424132

Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1997

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First printing (full number line). Softcover. Book condition is Very Good. Top of text block densely speckled. Stray pencil mark on back of last blank endpage. Text is in excellent condition - pages are bright, clean, and clear of writing, markings, highlighting, etc. Binding tight. Cover bumped at bottom corners and bottom of spine, with general wear along bottom edges. General minor shelfwear on cover otherwise.

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T�tulo: The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power
Editor: University of Chicago Press
Fecha de publicaci�n: 1997
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0226424138
ISBN 13: 9780226424132
Encuadernaci�n: Soft cover
Edici�n: 1st Edition
Estado: Very Good

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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.

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Bruce Kapferer is professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and honorary professor at University College London. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Legends of People, Myths of State.

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