Abiding By Sri Lanka - On Peace, Place, and Postcolonality

Klappentext An account of Sri Lankan politics and representative democracies. The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is portrayed as a consequence of a violent! ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. This book examines how the disciplines of anthropology! history! and literature treat the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. Zusammenfassung An account of Sri Lankan politics and representative democracies. The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is portrayed as a consequence of a violent! ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. This book examines how the disciplines of anthropology! history! and literature treat the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Ismail, Qadri Ismail
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2005
• EAN: 9780816642540
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-4254-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Public Worlds; Public Worlds Series; Public Worlds
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science