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Kapferer, Bruce [Author] ; Bastin, Rohan [Contributor]; Kapferer, Bruce [Contributor]; Morris, Barry [Contributor]; Rampton, David [Contributor]; Wijeyeratne, Roshan de Silva [Contributor]

Legends of People, Myths of State

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Legends of People, Myths of State : Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Preface to the New and Revised Edition
    Preface to the Paperback Reissue
    Introduction
    1 Cultures of Nationalism: Political Cosmology and the Passions
    Part 1 Evil and the State Sinhalese Nationalism, Violence, and the Power of Hierarchy
    2 Ethnic Violence and the Force of History in Legend
    3 Evil, Power, and the State
    4 Ideological Practice, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Passions
    Part 2 People Against the State: Australian Nationalism and Egalitarian Individualism
    5 When the World Crumbles and the Heavens Fall In: War, Death, and the Creation of Nat
    6 But the Band Played “Waltzing Maltilda” National Ceremonial and the Anatomy of Egalitarianism
    7 Ethnicity and Intolerance: Egalitarian Nationalism and Its Political Practice
    8 Nationalism, Tradition, and Political Culture
    Notes
    References
    Appendices
    Legends of People, Myths of State and the Current Context: By Way of Introduction
    Appendix 1 In the Wake of Legends: The Need for an Ontological Understanding of Nationalism and Power
    Appendix 2 Violence, Evil, and the State in Sri Lanka: Revisiting an Ontological Approach to Sinhalese Nationalism
    Appendix 3 Empty Spaces and the Multiple Modernities of Nationalism
    Appendix 4 The Social Genesis of Anzac Nationalism
    Appendix 5 The Australian Society of the State: Egalitarian Ideologies and New Directions in Exclusionary Practice
    Index
  • Contributor: Kapferer, Bruce [Author]; Bastin, Rohan [Contributor]; Kapferer, Bruce [Contributor]; Morris, Barry [Contributor]; Rampton, David [Contributor]; Wijeyeratne, Roshan de Silva [Contributor]
  • Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2011]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (446 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780857455178
  • ISBN: 9780857455178
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  • Keywords: Ethnic relations Case studies ; Nationalism Case studies ; Political culture Australia ; Political culture Sri Lanka ; State, The Case studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author’s native Australia. At the time this constituted an innovative approach to comparison in anthropology, as well as to nationalism and its possibilities. It was not based on differences but on the way in which perspectives from within the two nationalisms, when seen side-by-side, could present an understanding of their implication in producing the violence of war, racism, and social exclusion. The book has lost none of its importance and urgency as proven by the chapters in the Appendix, written by top scholars working in Sri Lanka and in Australia. These contributions bring together new material and critically explore the book’s themes and their continued relevance to the various trajectories in nationalist processes since the first publication of the book
  • Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB