Publication

2001-10-15 - Indiana University Press

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100253339995
  • ISBN-139780253339997
  • Goodreads1270015
  • Library of Congress Control Number00053538
  • OCLC Control Number50174730
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number45315106
  • Better World Books9780253339997
  • Better World BooksP9-ALK-843
  • Open LibraryOL9627663M

Classifications

  • LCCGN635.S72G66 2001
  • LCCGN635.S72 G66 2001eb
  • LCCGN635.S72 G66 2001

Description

"For nearly two and a half millennia Sri Lanka has figured in the Western imagination. Anthropologizing Sri Lanka examines how recent anthropologists have constructed and misconstrued the culture of this complex country. Susantha Goonatilake contends that post-colonial anthropology relating to Sri Lanka is worse than anything that colonial anthropology wrought - worse, even, than the colonial writings on the south Asian nation of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That this has occurred after the period of questioning and decolonization that anthropology went through in the 1960s and 1970s is all the more puzzling."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Anthropology and oriental studies were two formal means of Euro-American culture to observe other cultures.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric MisadventureHardcoverIndiana University Press2001-10-15

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