Contents -- Acknowledgments -- On Transliteration and Usage -- Introduction -- Part I. Ethnographic Topoi -- 1. Situating Yakku -- 2. Malign Glances: Distiya and the Ethics of Composure -- 3. Tovil Nätima (The Dancing of tovil) -- Part II. Colonial Discourses -- 4. Exorcisms and Demonic Experience, Anthropology and Yaktovil -- 5. Colonial Christian Discourse, Demonism, and Sinhala Religion -- Part III. Reconstructing Anthropological Objects -- 6. Historicizing Tradition: Buddhism and the Discourse of Yakku -- 7. The Ends and Strategy of Yaktovil -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- D -- H -- I -- K -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Y -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.