Sri Lanka (eBook, ePUB)

History and the Roots of Conflict
Redaktion: Spencer, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sheds 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134949793
• Artikelnr.: 38262219

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Spencer is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Chapter oneIntroduction: the power of the past, JonathanSpencer;
Part I Colonialism, history and racism; Chapter 2 The generation of
communal identities, Elizabeth Nissan, R.L. Stirrat; Chapter 3 Chapter
threeThe people of the lion: the Sinhala midentity and ideology in history
and historiography, R.A.L.H. Gunawardana; Chapter 4 Chapter fourHistorical
images in the British period, John D.Rogers; Chapter 5 Chapter five The
politics of the Tamil past, DagmarHellmann-Rajanayagam; Part 2 Part II
History at a moment of crisis; Chapter 6 Chapter six Nationalist rhetoric
and local practice: the fate of the village community in Kukulewa, James
Brow; Chapter 7 Chapter sevenA compound of many histories: themany pasts of
an east coast Tamilcommunity, Mark P.Whitaker; Chapter 8 Chapter eight
Rural awakenings: grassroots development and the cultivation of a national
past in rural Sri Lanka, Michael D. Woost; Part 3 Part IIIThe politics of
the past; Chapter 9 Chapter nineJ.R.Jayewardene, righteousnessand
realpolitik, Steven Kemper; Chapter 10 Chapter tenNewspaper nationalism:
Sinhala identity as historical discourse, SerenaTennekoon; Chapter 11
Chapter elevenAfterword: scared places, violent spaces, DanielE.Valentine;