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Author Kapferer, Bruce, author.

Title Legends of people, myths of state : violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia / Bruce Kapferer
Edition Revised and updated edition
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (446 pages)
Series Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry
Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Contents Preface to the New and Revised Edition; Preface to the Paperback Reissue Introduction Chapter 1. Cultures of Nationalism: Political Cosmology and the Passions Part I: Evil and the State: Sinhalese Naitonalism, Violence, and the Power of Hierarchy Chapter 2. Ethnic Violence and the Force of History in Legend; Chapter 3. Evil, Power, and the State; Chapter 4. Ideological Practice, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Passions Part II: People Against the State: Australian Nationalism and Egalitarian Individualism Chapter 5. When the World Crumbles and the Heavens Fall In: War, Death, and the Creation of Nation; Chapter 6. But the Band Played "Waltzing Maltilda": National Ceremonial and the Anatomy of Egalitarianism; Chapter 7. Ethnicity and Intolerance: Egalitarian Nationalism and Its Political Practice; Chapter 8. Nationalism, Tradition, and Political Culture Notes; References
Notes <P>Preface to the New and Revised Edition<br />Preface to the Paperback Reissue</p><p><strong>Introduction</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 1.</strong> Cultures of Nationalism: Political Cosmology and the Passions</p><p><strong>Part I: Evil and the State: Sinhalese Naitonalism, Violence, and the Power of Hierarchy</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 2.</strong> Ethnic Violence and the Force of History in Legend<br /><strong>Chapter 3.</strong> Evil, Power, and the State<br /><strong>Chapter 4.</strong> Ideological Practice, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Passions</p><p><strong>Part II: People Against the State: Australian Nationalism and Egalitarian Individualism</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 5.</strong> When the World Crumbles and the Heavens Fall In: War, Death, and the Creation of Nation<br /><strong>Chapter 6.</strong> But the Band Played "Waltzing Maltilda": National Ceremonial and the Anatomy of Egalitarianism<br /><strong>Chapter 7.</strong> Ethnicity and Intolerance: Egalitarian Nationalism and Its Political Practice<br /><strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Nationalism, Tradition, and Political Culture</p><p>Notes<br />References</p>
Previous edition: Washington, D.C.; London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988
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Subject Ethnic relations -- Case studies
Nationalism -- Case studies.
Political culture -- Australia
Political culture -- Sri Lanka
State, The -- Case studies
Ethnic relations.
Nationalism.
Political culture.
State, The.
Australia.
Sri Lanka.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0857455176
9780857455178