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Bruce Kapferer
Researcher at University of Bergen
Publications - 76
Citations - 2335
Bruce Kapferer is an academic researcher from University of Bergen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Nationalism. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 74 publications receiving 2200 citations. Previous affiliations of Bruce Kapferer include University of Adelaide & University College London.
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Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
TL;DR: The New and Revised edition of the paperback reissue of as discussed by the authors is the most complete version of the book. But the Band Played "Waltzing Maltilda": National Ceremonial and the Anatomy of Egalitarianism.
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A celebration of demons: Exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develop new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.
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The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power
TL;DR: Kapferer as discussed by the authors presents a provocative existential and phenomenological analysis of Sri Lankan Sinhala sorcery, showing how it "strikes at the heart" of what it means to be human.
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Transaction and meaning : directions in the anthropology of exchange and symbolic behavior
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Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning
TL;DR: In this article, a focus on the perceptual dynamics of rite, especially as these are located in ritual aesthetics, may expand an understanding of the force of rite in the context of cyber-technologies.