Crucible of Conflict : Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The research setting
- Past and present
- Issues in comparative ethnography
- Views of the Tamil caste hierarchy
- The Tamil high caste alliance
- The Kudi in action
- A profile of the Tamil specialist castes
- The Moors : matrilineal Muslims
- Muslim elites and specialists
- Ethnic identities and communal violence
- Fieldnotes from the war zone.