Author: Perinbanayagam, R.S.
Title: The Karmic Theater: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna
Description: Amherst, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1982. orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xi, 212 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Society & Hierarchy in Jaffna; The Religious Life; The Myths of Jaffna; The Structure of Astrology; Mythic Forms; Myth, Rite & Ideology; Epilogue: Myth, Self & Society.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Hindu Astrology, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Myth, Religion, Ethnography, South Asia, Sociology