John Clifford Holt

Broschiertes Buch

The Sri Lanka Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Herausgeber: Holt, John Clifford

Beschreibung

Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lanka s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.

Autor

John Clifford Holt is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He has written many books, including Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture, The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics and Culture, and The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka. He has also been awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.

Produktdetails

• The World Readers
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 792
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1162g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349822
• ISBN-10: 0822349825
• Artikelnr.: 32897184