Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

By Bruce Kapferer and LAPFERER BRUCE

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874745667
• ISBN13: 9780874745665
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.