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9780691056807 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $49.50
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9780691057521 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 24, 1997), cover price $41.95
9780691036212 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $17.95
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9780231153621 | Columbia Univ Pr, January 27, 2012, cover price $60.00
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9780691073330 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $63.00
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9780691019017 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, October 10, 1990), cover price $43.95
Product Description: In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings...read more
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9780520243071 | Univ of California Pr, May 13, 2005, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings.
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9780520243088 | Univ of California Pr, May 13, 2005, cover price $31.95
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9788120802131 | Orient Book Distributors, January 1, 1987, cover price $65.00
9780226616025 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $80.00
Product Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts.Hair―whether present or absent, restored or removed, abundant or scarce, long or short, bound or unbound, colored or natural―marks a person as clearly as speech, clothing, and smell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780791437414 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.50 | About this edition: An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts.
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9780791437421 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $31.95
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9780520232204 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $85.00
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9780520232433 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $33.95
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam—better known as the Tamil Tigers—officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities in Sri Lanka remains uncertain, not least because the lengthy conflict drove entire populations from their homes. The figures are jarring: for example, all of the roughly 80,000 Muslims in northern Sri Lanka were expelled from the Tamil Tiger-controlled north, and nearly half of all Sri Lankan Tamils were displaced during the course of the civil war.Sharika Thiranagama's In My Mother's House provides ethnographic insight into two important groups of internally displaced people: northern Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Muslims. Through detailed engagement with ordinary people struggling to find a home in the world, Thiranagama explores the dynamics within and between these two minority communities, describing how these relations were reshaped by violence, displacement, and authoritarianism. In doing so, she illuminates an often overlooked intraminority relationship and new social forms created through protracted war.In My Mother's House revolves around three major themes: ideas of home in the midst of profound displacement; transformations of familial experience; and the impact of the political violence—carried out by both the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan state—on ordinary lives and public speech. Her rare focus on the effects and responses to LTTE political regulation and violence demonstrates that envisioning a peaceful future for postconflict Sri Lanka requires taking stock of the new Tamil and Muslim identities forged by the civil war. These identities cannot simply be cast away with the end of the war but must be negotiated anew.
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9780812243420 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 21, 2011, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam—better known as the Tamil Tigers—officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war.
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9780812222845 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 16, 2013, cover price $26.50
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9780521058544 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1967), cover price $44.50
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9780521053259 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 29, 2008), cover price $49.99
Product Description: The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226616018 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 1984), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees.
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9780226615981 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 27, 1990, cover price $92.00
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9780226615998 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 1990, cover price $32.00
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