Dennis B McGilvray

Crucible of Conflict

Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341376
• ISBN-10: 0822341379
• Artikelnr.: 23370131

Autorenporträt

Dennis B. McGilvray

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Note on Transliteration xvii
Part 1. Framing Fieldwork in the Batticaloa Region
Introduction 3
Chapter 1. The Research Setting 21
Part 2. Problems of History and Anthropology
Chapter 2. Past and Present 55
Chapter 3. Issues in Comparative Ethnography 97
Part 3. Tamil and Muslim Social Structure
Chapter 4. Views of the Tamil Caste Hierarchy 151
Chapter 5. The Tamil High Caste Alliance 167
Chapter 6.The Kudi in Action 189
Chapter 7. A Profile of the Tamil Specialist Castes 210
Chapter 8. The Moors: Matrilineal Muslims 266
Chapter 9. Muslim Elites and Specialists 292
Part 4. Ethnicity, Conflict, and the War in the East
Chapter 10. Ethnic Identities and Communal Violence 313
Epilogue: Fieldnotes from the War Zone 331
Appendix 1. Tamil Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu 365
Appendix 2. Moorish Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu 367
Notes 369
Glossary 389
Bibliography 395
Index 417