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Ecstasy and Agony in Sri Lanka. A Review Article

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A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka, by KapfererBruce (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983)
Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience, by ObeyesekereGananath (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981)
The Cult of the Goddess Pattini, by ObeyesekereGananath (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Michael Lambek
Michael Lambek
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Profane Uses of the Sacred
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 291 - 303
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1985

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