In pursuit of hegemony: representations of authority and justice in a Sri Lankan village

J Brow - American ethnologist, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes the hegemonic state of play between the local culture of a village in
Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka, and the dominant ideology of Sinhalese Buddhist …

Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure

S Goonatilake, K Bates - Anthropologica, 2003 - search.proquest.com
Abstract In Anthropologizing Sri Lanka Susantha Goonatilake, a Sri-Lankan researcher
cross-appointed to the New York Center for Studies of Social Change and the Vidyartha …

The incorporation of a marginal community within the Sinhalese nation

J Brow - Anthropological Quarterly, 1990 - JSTOR
Escalating conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils has produced a polarization and
homogenization of ethnic identities that threatens the reproduction of a distinct sense of …

Suicide and the morality of kinship in Sri Lanka

T Widger - Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Ethnographic research amongst Sinhala Buddhists in community and clinical settings in the
Madampe Division, northwest Sri Lanka, suggests that local understandings and practices of …

[图书][B] Patronage and Politics in the Victorian Empire

C Newbury - 2010 - books.google.com
Page 1 AND POLITICS IN THE Victorian Empire THE PERSONAL GOVERNANCE OF SIR
ARTHUR HAMILTON GORDON (LORD STANMORE) COLIN NEWBURY Page 2 PATRONAGE …

[图书][B] Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka

SWRA Samarasinghe, V Samarasinghe - 1998 - books.google.com
The island nation of Sri Lanka possesses a rich and sometimes troubled history that
stretches back over 2,500 years. According to the nation's" origin myth," it was first settled by …

[图书][B] Self-harm and self-inflicted death amongst Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka: An ethnographic study

T Widger - 2009 - search.proquest.com
Suicidal behaviour has long been observed to occur at unusually high rates in Sri Lanka. In
this thesis, the results of twenty-one months' ethnographic, clinical, and archival research …

[图书][B] Trade Unions in Sri Lanka under Globalisation: reinventing worker solidarity

J Biyanwila - 2003 - research-repository.uwa.edu.au
This study examines trade union resistance to the post 1977 Export Oriented
Industrialisation (EOI) strategies in Sri Lanka, and the possibilities of developing new …

[PDF][PDF] Sociological enterprise at the periphery: The case of Sri Lanka

S Hettige - Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Sociology, 2010 - ios.sinica.edu.tw
Sri Lanka came under the hegemony of Western colonialism in the early sixteenth century,
when the Portuguese captured its maritime provinces in 1505. The entire island became a …

Blaming the house: women's efforts to preserve marriage in a rural Sinhala village

T Udalagama - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In rural Sri Lanka, marital tension, frequently leading to violence, is an increasing
problem. This article explores how the house becomes both the source of problems and a …