From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis

Auteur: Headley, Stephen C. (Charge de Recherche, Charge de Recherche, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
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.
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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.
ISBN / EAN 9780198234234
Auteur Headley, Stephen C. (Charge de Recherche, Charge de Recherche, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Editeur Oxford University Press