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Sri Lanka: ethnic fratricide and the dismantling of democracy
The University of Chicago Press ; The University of Chicago Press, Ltd. • Chicago, Ill. • Published In 1991 • Pages:
By: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work focuses on the historical events of the post-independence period (ca. 1948) of Sri Lanka and contains a critical analysis by Tambiah of the causes of the violent conflict between the majority Sinhalese population and the minority Tamils. The author demonstrates that the crisis described in detail in the text is the result of a combination of societal stresses -- '…educational expansion, linguistic policy, unemployment, uneven income distribution, population movements, contemporary uses of the past as religious and national ideology, and trends toward authoritarianism -- rather than age-old racial and religious differences' (cover).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History and culture change
- Ethnic stratification
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Brawls, riots, and banditry
- Political parties
- Revolution
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sinhalese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948-1983
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sri Lanka
- NotesAdditional notes
- S. J. Tambiah
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85024598
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people)