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20 Whatever the antecedents, anthropology in Sri Lanka has been, for much of the time, an exercise in making and marking the place. ‘Anthropology’ as cosmopolitan idiom is harnessed to exercises in locating, valorizing and fixing the essence of place.
12 sie 2024 · The different contributions to this forum study different styles and sites of ‘the cultural life of democracy’ in Sri Lanka, starting from the events of aragalaya and its aftermath, but some also look beyond aragalaya to specific terrains and arenas of the democratic politics.
9 sty 2023 · In the opening months of 2022, Sri Lanka found itself plunged into a profound economic and political crisis. Spiraling inflation and drastic shortage of foreign currency made everyday life almost u...
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Sri Lanka has yielded skeletal evidence for the earliest anatomically modern humans from South Asia indicating very early settlement of the region.
23 lut 2024 · To understand perceptions of heritage today across Sri Lanka, we probed further and further back into European colonialism and regional histories.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Sri Lanka, I contend that central to this paradox was contestation over who had the power to govern the life and death of Tamil subjects. Revisiting the anthropology of sovereignty, I propose an alternative idiom of sovereignty: a vulnerable sovereignty emerging with Hindu deities and based on ...
