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 …
Escalating conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils has produced a polarization and homogenization of ethnic identities that threatens the reproduction of a distinct sense of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This study examines trade union resistance to the post 1977 Export Oriented Industrialisation (EOI) strategies in Sri Lanka, and the possibilities of developing new …
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 …
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 …