Tell your friends about this item:
From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis: The Spilt Seed - Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Headley, Stephen C. (Charge de Recherche, Charge de Recherche, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis: The Spilt Seed - Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Headley, Stephen C. (Charge de Recherche, Charge de Recherche, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Stephen Headley translates and studies a Javanese ritual and myth, the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. He shows that this genesis myth, with its movement from cosmogony to exorcism, constitutes the basis of networks of circulating values in contemporary Javanese society.
264 pages, 9 halftones, 6 figures, 1 map
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 1, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198234234 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 243 × 19 mm · 599 g |
| Language | English |