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| Historicising the Cosmogony: Naming the Asala Perahara in Buddhist Sri Lanka | ||
| 作者 | Warrell, Lindy |
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| 出處題名 | The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA) |
| 卷期 | v.1 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 1990.04 |
| 頁次 | 3 - 4 |
| 出版者 | Australian Anthropological Society |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.aas.asn.au/ |
| 出版地 | Canberra, Australia [坎培拉, 澳洲] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 320 Lindy Warrell, University of Adelaide |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism -- Rites and ceremonies; Processions, Religious -- Buddhism; Sri Lanka -- Rites and ceremonies; Cosmogony, Buddhist -- Rites and ceremonies; Sri Lanka |
| 摘要 | This article offers a novel interpretation of Sri Lanka's great ceremonial procession for the Buddha, the Asala Perahara. By conceptualizing the name, ‘Asala’ as a chronotope (Bakhtin 1981), and giving emphasis to its authorisation by Buddhist monks, the interpretation reveals that this ritual commemorates the origins of Buddhism in relation to the island of Sri Lanka, thus constituting it as a unique ‘quality space’ (Fernandez 1986) for its Buddhist inhabitants. The interpretation demonstrates that the distinction between mythic time and everyday time, as espoused by Lévi‐Strauss (1972) is not only arbitrary, but spurious in this context. Furthermore, contra Seneviratne (1978), it shows that far from being an anachronism in contemporary society, the Asala Perahara in fact enacts its cosmic premise and is politically powerful precisely because it defines reality in religious terms. |
| 目次 | The Ritual Complex 4 Spatial and Iconic Signifiers 5 The World of Form 6 A Perahara by any other name would not be the same 6 Asala Maha Perahara 9 Conclusion: What’s in a Name? 10 Notes 13 Bibliography 16 |
| ISSN | 10358811 (P); 17576547 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 195 |
| 建檔日期 | 1998.04.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.01.16 |
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