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Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture and History

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Gebonden, 406 blz. | Engels
Taylor & Francis | 1e druk, 1995
ISBN13: 9783718655069
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Taylor & Francis 1e druk, 1995 9783718655069
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Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents, as at the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality.
This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka's political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimisation and human beings in conflict.

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ISBN13:9783718655069
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:406
Druk:1

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