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Sri Lankaby Jonathan Spencer
Routledge 1990; US$ 195.00Sheds fresh light on the historical roots of the ethnic crisis in the country. Its interest extends beyond contemporary politics into history, anthropology and development studies. more...
Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lankaby Mahinda Deegalle
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 39.95This book explores dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in contemporary Sri Lanka. more...
Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lankaby Deborah Winslow; Michael D. Woost
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 18.35"Will be of interest to those working on conflict and peace studies, economic development, cultural studies, and women in the modern world. A key new publication." -- Chandra R. de Silva, Old Dominion University "... offers a superb overview of how a civil war, driven by ethnicity, can engender a new culture and a new political economy... Highly recommended." -- Choice Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka provides a lucid and up-to-date interpretation of Sri Lankan society and its 20-year civil conflict. An interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between the economy, broadly defined, and the... more...
In Defense Of Dharmaby Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 59.95This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. An important contribution to the understanding of the power of religion to create both peace and war. more...
Enemy Linesby Margaret Trawick
University of California Press 2003; US$ 24.95Enemy Lines captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of children in this conflict. Her beautifully written account, which includes voices of the teenagers and young adults who have joined the Tamil Tigers, brings alive a region where childhood, warfare, and play have become commingled in a world of continuous uncertainty. more...
Abiding by Sri Lankaby Qadri Ismail
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 75.00Abiding by Sri Lanka examines how the disciplines of anthropology, history, and literature treat the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. With close readings of texts that ?abide? by Sri Lanka, texts that have a commitment to it, Ismail demonstrates that the problems in Sri Lanka raise fundamental concerns for us all regarding the relationship between democracies and minorities. more...
Formations of Ritualby David Scott
University of Minnesota Press 1994; US$ 66.00Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Scott?s investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological?often, specifically colonial?objects. more...
Postcolonial Insecuritiesby Sankaran Krishna
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 84.00This ambitious work explores the vexed connections among nation building, ethnic identity, and regional conflict by focusing on a specific event: Indian political and military intervention in the ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka. Postcolonial Insecurities counters the perception of ?ethnicity? as an inferior and subversive principle compared with the progressive ideal of the ?nation.? Krishna, in fact, shows ethnicity to be indispensable to the production and reproduction of the nation itself. more...
Continental Modelby Scott Elledge
University of Minnesota Press 1960; US$ 75.00The pervasive influence of seventeenth-century French criticism upon eighteenth-century English criticism makes it important for students of English and comparative literature to be familiar with the most important of the French works. Professors Elledge more...
The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lankaby Asoka Bandarage
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 160.00This book provides an in-depth, historical case study of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka. more...