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Crucible of Conflict Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka

Name: Crucible of Conflict
Author: Dennis B. Mcgilvray

Auteur: Dennis B. Mcgilvray

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Dennis B. Mcgilvray Dennis B. Mcgilvray

Co-auteur: Mcgilvray

Engels
Paperback
9780822341611
07 mei 2008
425 pagina's

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Presents an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. This book presents an ethnography of Sri Lanka's east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and a region of vital significance to the political future of the island nation.

Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnography of Sri Lanka’s east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka broke out in 1983, the easternmost region of the island has emerged as a strategic site of conflict. Dennis B. McGilvray argues that any long-term resolution of the ethnic conflict must accommodate this region, in which Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamil Hindus, and Tamil-speaking Muslims are each a significant share of the population.

McGilvray explores the densely populated farming and fishing settlements in this coastal zone, focusing on the Tamil and Muslim inhabitants of an agricultural town in the Ampara District. Drawing on fieldwork conducted over more than thirty years as well as on Tamil and Dutch historical sources, he describes the regional dominance of a non-Brahmin matrilineal caste of thirteenth-century Kerala origin. The Muslims, who acquired dowry lands and matrilineal family patterns through local intermarriages, have in the twentieth century emerged from Hindu caste domination and are now the Tamil Hindus’ political and economic equals. Crucible of Conflict offers a uniquely detailed account of Muslim kinship and community organization in eastern Sri Lanka, as well as a comparison of Tamil and Muslim practices and institutions. McGilvray concludes with an analysis of the interethnic tensions and communal violence that have intensified in recent years.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 mei 2008
Aantal pagina's: 425
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Dennis B. Mcgilvray
Tweede Auteur: Dennis B. Mcgilvray
Co Auteur: Mcgilvray
Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 156 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 151 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 635 g

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EAN: 9780822341611

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Cultuur

Sociologie

Interdisciplinaire studies

Sociale theorie

Regionale studies

Culturele antropologie

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Land: India, Sri Lanka
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Taal: Engels

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