Author: Roberts, Michael
Title: Exploring Confrontation : Sri Lanka - Politics, Culture and History
Description: Chur [Switzerland], Harwood Academic Publishers, (1994). orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, xxv,377 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: Studies in Anthropology and History, vol. 14.. Some rubbing. VG. ¶ Sri Lanka has been the meeting 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 contextualized 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 volume uses ethnographic detail to serve as an exercise in historical anthropology which illustrates Sri Lanka's political culture. It aims to open out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimization and human beings in conflict" - publisher's description.

Keywords: Sri Lanka, South Asia, Ethnic Conflict, Ethnicity, Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnography, Sociology, Political History