num_pages: 388
description: Stressing the importance of performance in the organization of ritual experience, Kapferer reveals that music, dance, and comicdrama are key aesthetic forms in Sinhalese demon ceremonies.
language: English
title: A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka
titlecomplete: A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka
genres: Religion, Anthropology
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr