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Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Pul Eliya written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Ronald Leach
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Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pul Eliya, a Village in Ceylon written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. R. Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521055245
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Pul Eliya written by E. R. Leach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1961-01-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1961 book analyses how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in the irrigation-based village of Pul Eliya.
Author : Edmund Ronald Leach
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Total Pages : 343 pages
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Download or read book Pul Eliya written by Edmund Ronald Leach and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. R. Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200219
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Pul Eliya written by E. R. Leach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Central Province of Ceylon was the focus of a major civilisation which flourished between the third century BC and the twelfth century AD. The area is an arid plain where habitation is possible only with the help of an elaborate irrigation system; and the existing villages use the same irrigation works as the villages of antiquity. This 1961 book is a detailed analysis of how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in one of these irrigation-based communities, the village of Pul Eliya. The main emphasis is placed on the way the ties of kinship and marriage are related to property rights and the practices of land use. The approach to this question provides a critical test of certain features of the theory and method of contemporary social anthropology. The factual evidence is very detailed, and the author allows the facts to speak for themselves wherever possible.
Author : Stanley J. Tambiah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521024
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Edmund Leach written by Stanley J. Tambiah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-14 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.
Author : E. Walter Coward
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801498718
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Irrigation and Agricultural Development in Asia written by E. Walter Coward and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521891592
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Political Obligation in Its Historical Context written by John Dunn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Dunn addresses the central questions of political philosophy from an unusually broad variety of perspectives.
Author : Tom Widger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317589920
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Suicide in Sri Lanka written by Tom Widger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and meanings of suicidal practices to social processes across moments, lifetimes and history. Extending anthropological approaches to practice, learning and agency, anthropologist Tom Widger draws from long-term fieldwork in a Sinhala Buddhist community to develop an ethnographic theory of suicide that foregrounds local knowledge and sets out a charter for prevention. The book highlights the motives of children and adults becoming suicidal and how certain gender, age, class relationships and violence are prone to give rise to suicidal responses. By linking these experiences to emotional states, it develops an ethnopsychiatric model of suicide rooted in social practice. Widger then goes on to examine how suicides are resolved at village and national levels, tracing the roots of interventions to the politics of colonial and post-colonial social welfare and health regimes. Exploring local accounts of suicide as both ‘evidence’ for the suicide epidemic and as an ‘ethos’ of suicidality shaping subjective worlds, Suicide in Sri Lanka shows how anthropological analysis can offer theoretical as well as policy insights. With the inclusion of straightforward summaries and implications for prevention at the end of each chapter, this book has relevance for specialists and non-specialists alike. It represents an important new contribution to South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology and Medical Anthropology, as well as to cross-cultural Suicidology.
Author : Michele Ruth Gamburd
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801486449
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Kitchen Spoon's Handle written by Michele Ruth Gamburd and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common Sinhala proverb states, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length of the kitchen spoon's handle." In this beautifully written book on the effects of female migration from Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd shows that the length of that handle now spans several thousand miles, rather than a mere twelve inches.During the past twenty years, a great many Sri Lankan women have left their homes and families to work as housemaids in the wealthy oil-producing states of the Middle East. Gamburd explores global and local, as well as personal, reasons why so many women leave to work so far away. Focusing primarily on the home community, rather than on the experiences of the workers abroad, she vividly illustrates the impact of the migration on those left behind and on the migrants who return.As migrant women take on the formerly masculine role of breadwinner, Gamburd explains, traditional concepts of the value of "women's work" are significantly altered. She examines the effects of female migration on caste hierarchies, class relations, gender roles, and family interactions.The Kitchen Spoon's Handle skillfully blends the stories and memories of returned migrants and their families and neighbors with interviews with government officials, recruiting agents, and moneylenders. The book provides a rich and sensitive portrait of the confluence of global and local processes in the lives of the villagers. Gamburd presents a sophisticated, yet very readable, discussion of current theories of power, agency, and identity.
Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191584487
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Asian Population History written by Ts'ui-jung Liu and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-05-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Asian historical demography has lagged behind that of its European and American counterparts for some time. This volume serves to narrow the gap by drawing together material from scholars specializing in demography across the spectrum of Asian countries. The collection divides into four parts and contains nineteen chapters covering issues on comparative perspective, fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family. The geographic coverage of the chapters is also wide, extending from East Asia to South Asia, with specific emphasis on Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka. Authors focus on a whole range of social groups, discussing how demographic issues affect and have affected both urban and rural dwellers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This volume, which is perhaps the first to bring together a number of in-depth, specialist studies on Asian population history, should prove a useful and engaging tool for both students and academics in the fields of demography, history, and Asian studies.
Author : Nur Yalman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book Under the Bo Tree written by Nur Yalman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134120516
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Identities written by Timothy Insoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive sourcebook collates seminal articles from this increasingly important field, to present a comprehensive and well-balanced representation of approaches and interests in a single volume for students, lecturers and researchers.
Author : Stephen Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134471203
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Elite Cultures written by Stephen Nugent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings. Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, including Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, North America and Africa, the contributors explore the inner worlds of meaning and practice that define and sustain elite identities. They also provide insights into the cultural mechanisms that maintain elite status, and into the complex ways that elite groups relate to, and are embedded within, wider social and historical processes.
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231028138
Total Pages : 1847 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book History of Humanity written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 1847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV deals with the 'Middle Ages'. It starts with the expansion of Islam and closes with the discovery of the New World. Various events during this period led to a significant expansion in communications: the rapid spread of Islam and of Gengis Khan's Mongol Empire, as well as the Crusades and the development of trans-Saharan and maritime routes around Africa to the Indian Ocean, leading to multiplied exchanges between the peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134355971
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Exploring Confrontation written by Michael Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
