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Informationen zum Autor Dennis B. McGilvray Klappentext Examines the caste, marriage patterns, ethnicity and religious institutions in the Tamil-speaking Hindu and Muslim communities situated along the eastern coastline of Sri Lanka, exploring the sources of their ethnic and political hostilities in the modern Zusammenfassung An ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It also presents the 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Note on Transliteration xvii Part 1. Framing Fieldwork in the Batticaloa Region Introduction 3 Chapter 1. The Research Setting 21 Part 2. Problems of History and Anthropology Chapter 2. Past and Present 55 Chapter 3. Issues in Comparative Ethnography 97 Part 3. Tamil and Muslim Social Structure Chapter 4. Views of the Tamil Caste Hierarchy 151 Chapter 5. The Tamil High Caste Alliance 167 Chapter 6.The Kudi in Action 189 Chapter 7. A Profile of the Tamil Specialist Castes 210 Chapter 8. The Moors: Matrilineal Muslims 266 Chapter 9. Muslim Elites and Specialists 292 Part 4. Ethnicity, Conflict, and the War in the East Chapter 10. Ethnic Identities and Communal Violence 313 Epilogue: Fieldnotes from the War Zone 331 Appendix 1. Tamil Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu 365 Appendix 2. Moorish Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu 367 Notes 369 Glossary 389 Bibliography 395 Index 417
