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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$ 44.95This book explores dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in contemporary Sri Lanka. more...
In Defense Of Dharmaby Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 63.95This 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...
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...
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...
Spatialising Politicsby Cathrine Brun; Tariq Jazeel
SAGE India 2009; US$ 29.95Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka. brings together a collection of essays that take as their theme the spatial politics. of Sri Lanka. It highlights the importance of space in the ongoing ethnic conflict. fuelling Sri Lankas continuing civil war and invokes a number of aspects. less frequently cited in the dominant approaches to understanding postcolonial. Sri Lankan nationhood and identity. The essays in the volume examine the role of spatialities often. occluded within the debates on Sri Lankan politicsamongst them, cities. and built-space, diasporic productions and imaginations, commodity cultures. and their concordant networks, knowledge spaces and foreign interventions,.... more...
Pathways of Dissentby R. Cheran
SAGE India 2009; US$ 49.95Sri Lanka, the Teardrop Isle, has been under international attention for more than two decades for its ethnic conflict and civil war, and recently, under intense media scrutiny for what seems like a decisive end to the civil war. While the ethnic conflict and the civil war have been the subjects of numerous academic and non-academic studies in both the East and the West, there has been no significant research on nationalism, particularly Tamil nationalism, as it manifests itself in Sri Lanka. Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka endeavours to fill this important academic gap through its collection of ten in-depth essays that present a wide perspective of the subject. The book holistically portrays Tamil nationalism... more...
Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lankaby Valli Kanapathipillai
Anthem Press 2009; US$ 99.00Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka analyses the context of the agreement between the Sri Lankan and Indian government that led to the loss of citizenship of Indian Tamil estate workers in Sri Lanka. more...
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