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- Title From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javanese Genesis: The Spilt Seed
- Author Stephen Cavana Headley
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford
- Date 2001-04-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780198234234 / 0198234236
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.92 x 0.82 in (23.06 x 17.58 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Javanese, Rites and ceremonies - Indonesia - Java
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00066916
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.922
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-Oxford University Press, 2000-. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. First edition. xiii+250 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. 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. In this text, 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. From Cosmogony to…
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