Crucible of Conflict : Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka
Dennis B. McGilvray
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (446 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Part I: Framing Fieldwork in the Batticaloa Region; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Research Setting; Part 2: Problems of History and Anthropology; Chapter 2. Past and Present; Chapter 3. Issues in Comparative Ethnography; Part 3: Tamil and Muslim Social Structure; Chapter 4. Views of the Tamil Caste Hierarchy; Chapter 5. The Tamil High Caste Alliance; Chapter 6. The Kudi in Action; Chapter 7. A Profile of the Tamil Specialist Castes; Chapter 8. The Moors: Matrilineal Muslims. - Chapter 9. Muslim Elites and SpecialistsPart 4: Ethnicity, Conflict, and the War in the East; Chapter 10. Ethnic Identities and Communal Violence; Epilogue: Fieldnotes from the War Zone; Appendix 1. Tamil Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu; Appendix 2. Moorish Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. - 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
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| ISBN | 9780822341376
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