From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis by Stephen Headley
In 1925 the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers posed the question of the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. The light shed by this myth, and its re-enactment, on the social morphology of Java was immediately the subject of debate among students of Javanese culture. Stephen C. Headley translates and studies ritual and myth in their variant forms. He expands illuminatingly upon Rasser's general proposition, that the movement from cosmogony to exorcism founds fundamental social forms within which values circulate in Javanese society. Richly detailed descriptions confirm the permanence of these networks of circulating values in modern-day Java, and their persistence in the face of contemporary individualism.-
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This book gives the reader much food for thought, not only about Javanese mythology, the wayang, and cosmology, but also about what it is to be a Javanese person within a cosmos so construed* Moussons *
Interesting reading ... the author is well equipped to carry out this task, having an unusual and impressive command of the literature. His tour through the mythological background is intriguing and insightful ... many suggestive leads and fascinating links between mythology, kinship, and ritual ... From Cosmogony to Exorcism offers an analysis in the structuralist mode and it makes a brilliant contribution to this tradition. * Anthropos *
Interesting reading ... the author is well equipped to carry out this task, having an unusual and impressive command of the literature. His tour through the mythological background is intriguing and insightful ... many suggestive leads and fascinating links between mythology, kinship, and ritual ... From Cosmogony to Exorcism offers an analysis in the structuralist mode and it makes a brilliant contribution to this tradition. * Anthropos *
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198234234 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198234236 |
| Title | From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis |
| Author | Stephen Headley |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Social And Cultural Anthropology |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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