From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javanese Genesis: The Spilt Seed

by Stephen C. Headley

In 1925, the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers questioned the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon Kala. This myth, and its re-enactment, shed light on the social morphology and became immediately the subject of debate among students of Javanese culture. In this enticing work, Stephen C. Headley translates and studies ritual and myth in their variant forms, expanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198234236
• ISBN13: 9780198234234
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"