Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kinship
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Pul Eliya
Author: Pul Eliya, a Village in Ceylon
Author: Edmund Ronald LeachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Pul Eliya
Author: E. R. LeachPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521055245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This 1961 book analyses how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in the irrigation-based village of Pul Eliya.
Pul Eliya
Author: Edmund Ronald LeachPul Eliya
Author: E. R. LeachPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521200219
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The North Central Province of Ceylon was the focus of a major civilisation which flourished between the third century BC and the twelfth century AD. The area is an arid plain where habitation is possible only with the help of an elaborate irrigation system; and the existing villages use the same irrigation works as the villages of antiquity. This 1961 book is a detailed analysis of how land was owned used and transmitted to later generations in one of these irrigation-based communities, the village of Pul Eliya. The main emphasis is placed on the way the ties of kinship and marriage are related to property rights and the practices of land use. The approach to this question provides a critical test of certain features of the theory and method of contemporary social anthropology. The factual evidence is very detailed, and the author allows the facts to speak for themselves wherever possible.
Edmund Leach
Author: Stanley J. TambiahPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.
Irrigation and Agricultural Development in Asia
Author: E. Walter CowardPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801498718
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Suicide in Sri Lanka
Author: Tom WidgerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317589939
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and meanings of suicidal practices to social processes across moments, lifetimes and history. Extending anthropological approaches to practice, learning and agency, anthropologist Tom Widger draws from long-term fieldwork in a Sinhala Buddhist community to develop an ethnographic theory of suicide that foregrounds local knowledge and sets out a charter for prevention. The book highlights the motives of children and adults becoming suicidal and how certain gender, age, class relationships and violence are prone to give rise to suicidal responses. By linking these experiences to emotional states, it develops an ethnopsychiatric model of suicide rooted in social practice. Widger then goes on to examine how suicides are resolved at village and national levels, tracing the roots of interventions to the politics of colonial and post-colonial social welfare and health regimes. Exploring local accounts of suicide as both ‘evidence’ for the suicide epidemic and as an ‘ethos’ of suicidality shaping subjective worlds, Suicide in Sri Lanka shows how anthropological analysis can offer theoretical as well as policy insights. With the inclusion of straightforward summaries and implications for prevention at the end of each chapter, this book has relevance for specialists and non-specialists alike. It represents an important new contribution to South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology and Medical Anthropology, as well as to cross-cultural Suicidology.
Irrigation Decision-making Processes and Conditions
Author: Charles NijmanPublisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290901403
Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Political Obligation in Its Historical Context
Author: John DunnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521891592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Mr Dunn addresses the central questions of political philosophy from an unusually broad variety of perspectives.