Anthropologizing Sri Lanka

"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.

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

שנה

2001

שפה

English

הוצאה

Indiana University Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

300

ISBN

9780253339997

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata