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Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon by : Arnold Wright
Download or read book Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon written by Arnold Wright and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1999 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly covers the 19th-20th centuries.
Book Synopsis Glimpses of Colombo by : Ishvari Corea
Download or read book Glimpses of Colombo written by Ishvari Corea and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register by : John M. Senaveratna
Download or read book The Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register written by John M. Senaveratna and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Glimpses of New Zealand by : Glimpses of New Zealand
Download or read book Glimpses of New Zealand written by Glimpses of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The City as Text by : James S. Duncan
Download or read book The City as Text written by James S. Duncan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.
Download or read book Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.
Book Synopsis The Cult of the Goddess Pattini by : Gananath Obeyesekere
Download or read book The Cult of the Goddess Pattini written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pattini-goddess, virgin, wife and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon-has been worshiped in Sri Lanks and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long-awaited book is the culmination of Gananath Obeyesekere's comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well-known anthropologist and a native of Sri Lanka, Obeyesekere displays his impeccable scholarship and a stunning range of theoretical perspectives in this work, the most detailed analysis of a single religious complex in South Asian ethnography (and possibly in all of anthropology). Since 1955 Obeyesekere has observed and participated in modern performances of the rituals of worship, healing, and propitiation in the Pattini cult, particularly the postharvest ritual known as the gammaduva. He presents detailed texts of the gammaduva, placing them in their historical and mythic traditions. Using the texts, he formulates a cultural analysis of the Buddhist pantheon and a critique of empiricist notions of South Asian historiography. Obeyesekere shows that some seemingly historical figures of South India and Sri Lanka are mythic characters and that their historical significance can best be understood by an anthropological analysis of myth rather than through a reification of myth in history. The concurrent Hindu worship of Pattini with its myths and rituals is described in detail. Obeyesekere documents the Sanskritization of Pattini, the changing physical structures of the goddess's shrines from the 1930s to the present, the assumption by Brahman priests of ritual functions formerly carried out by folk priest, and the sociocultural causes of these changes. He traces, too, the origins and diffusion of the cult throughout its entire history, as well as its survival today. Of psychological interest is the problematic status of Pattini as virgin, wife, and mother and her relationship with her god-husband Palanga and his courtesan Madevi. Obeyesekere discusses the psychodynamics of this relationship in detail and explains its role in Hindu-Buddhist socialization and family structure. Further, he uses this analysis to account for local variations in the performance and structure of the ritual. The ritual of the killing and resurrection of Pattini's husband and her role as mater dolorosa will interest scholars of comparative religion.
Book Synopsis Glimpses of Ceylon's Past by : Senarat Paranavitana
Download or read book Glimpses of Ceylon's Past written by Senarat Paranavitana and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration Volume by : J E Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw
Download or read book Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration Volume written by J E Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a frontispiece, 58 figures and 15 plates
Book Synopsis The Sigiriya Royal Gardens by : Nilan Cooray
Download or read book The Sigiriya Royal Gardens written by Nilan Cooray and published by TU Delft. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides the efforts that are of a descriptive and celebrative nature, studies related to Sri Lanka's historical built heritage largely view material remains in historical, sociological, socio-historical and semiological perspectives. There is hardly any serious attempt to view such material remains from a technical-analytical approach to understand the compositional aspects of their design. The 5th century AC royal complex at Sigiriya is no exception in this regard. The enormous wealth of information and the material remains unearthed during more than 100 years of field-based research by several generations of archaeologists provide an ideal opportunity for such analysis. The Sigiriya Royal Gardens fills the gap in research related to Sri Lanka's historical built heritage in general, and to Sigiriya in particular. Therefore, the present research attempts to read Sigiriya as a landscape architectonic design to expose its architectonic composition and design instruments.
Book Synopsis International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania by : Trudy Ring
Download or read book International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania written by Trudy Ring and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Download or read book Children Of The Lion written by Muller and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictionalized account of the history of Sri Lanka from the earliest times; includes the spread and development of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
Book Synopsis Slave in a Palanquin by : Nira Wickramasinghe
Download or read book Slave in a Palanquin written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.
Book Synopsis Published Information on Agriculture in Foreign Countries, January 1937-December 1953 by : United States. Foreign Agricultural Service
Download or read book Published Information on Agriculture in Foreign Countries, January 1937-December 1953 written by United States. Foreign Agricultural Service and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue by : Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Download or read book Catalogue written by Calcutta (India). Imperial library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject-index to the author-catalogue. 1908-10. 2 v by : Imperial Library, Calcutta
Download or read book Subject-index to the author-catalogue. 1908-10. 2 v written by Imperial Library, Calcutta and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
