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BL
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1022400
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b776770
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Ismail, Qadri.
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| Title & Author
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Abiding by Sri Lanka : : on peace, place, and postcoloniality /\ Qadri Ismail.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis, Minn. :: University of Minnesota Press ;Bristol :: University Presses Marketing [distributor],, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Public worlds ;; v. 16
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1 online resource (xlvi, 273 pages).
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| ISBN
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0816695431
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: 9780816695430
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0816642540
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0816642559
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9780816642540
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9780816642557
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Abiding by Sri Lanka; 1 Better Things to Do: (Dis)Placing Sri Lanka, (Re)Conceptualizing Postcoloniality; 2 Majority Rules: Reading a Sinhalese Nationalist History; 3 Minority Matters: Reading a Tamil Nationalist History; 4 What, to the Leftist, Is a Good Story? Two Fictional Critiques of Nationalism; Conclusion: Does Democracy Inhibit Peace?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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Abiding by Sri Lanka examines how the disciplines of anthropology, history, and literature treat the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. With close readings of texts that "abide" by Sri Lanka, texts that have a commitment to it, Ismail demonstrates that the problems in Sri Lanka raise fundamental concerns for us all regarding the relationship between democracies and minorities.
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Ethnology-- Sri Lanka-- Philosophy.
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Political violence-- Sri Lanka.
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Ethnic relations.
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Ethnology-- Philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.
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Political violence.
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Politics and government.
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Social conditions.
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Sri Lanka, Ethnic relations.
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Sri Lanka, Politics and government, 1978-
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Sri Lanka, Social conditions.
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Sri Lanka.
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| Dewey Classification
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954.93032
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| LC Classification
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DS489.2.I84 2005eb
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