| Description |
xxv, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 14 |
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Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 14
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| Contents |
1. A Pictorial Prelude: The Religious Circumstances of Political Action -- 2. Authors and their Situations -- 3. The Asokan Persona as a Cultural Disposition -- 4. "Caste Feudalism"? A Critique through the Asokan Persona and European Contrasts -- 5. The Asokan Persona and its Reproduction in Modern Times -- 6. Four Twentieth Century Texts and the Asokan Persona -- 7. The Imperialism of Silence under the British Raj: Arresting the Drum -- 8. Mentalities: Ideologues, Assailants, Historians and the Pogrom against the Moors in 1915 -- 9. 'I Shall have you Slippered': The General and the Particular in an Historical Conjuncture -- 10. Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhala Perspectives: Barriers to Accommodation -- 11. Ethnicity in Riposte at a Cricket Match: The Past for the Present -- 12. The 1956 Generations: After and Before -- 13. The Agony and the Ecstasy of a Pogrom: Southern Lanka, July 1983 -- 14. A Biographical Epilogue |
| Summary |
"Sri Lanka has been a meeting point for many ideologies and ways of being. This has resulted in heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, Michael Roberts demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents. At the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka's political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by highlighting the immediacy human beings in conflict."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Asokan persona |
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Buddhism |
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Cultural identity |
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Ethnic relations |
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History |
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Overseas item |
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Sri Lanka |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-361) and indexes |
| Subject |
Communalism -- Sri Lanka.
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Ethnicity -- Sri Lanka.
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Ethnology -- Sri Lanka.
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| SUBJECT |
Sri Lanka -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127142
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Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117162
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Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117166
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| LC no. |
95214589 |
| ISBN |
3718655063 |
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3718656922 |
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