Download or read book The Musical Gift written by Jim Sykes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity, but were gifts to gods and people intended to foster protection and/or healing. Noting that the currently assumed link between music and identity helped produce the narratives of ethnic difference that drove Sri Lanka's civil war (1983-2009), Sykes argues that the promotion of connected music histories has a role to play in post-war reconciliation. The Musical Gift includes a study of how NGOs used music to promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka, and it contains a theorization of the relations between musical gifts and commodities. Eschewing a binary between the gift and identity, Sykes claims the world's music history is largely a story of entanglement between both paradigms. Drawing on fieldwork conducted widely across Sri Lanka over a span of eleven years--including the first study of Sinhala Buddhist drumming in English and the first ethnography of music-making in the former warzones of the north and east--this book brings anthropology's canonic literature on "the gift" into music studies, while drawing on anthropology's recent "ontological turn" and "the new materialism" in religious studies.
Download or read book J R Jayewardene of Sri Lanka 1906 1956 written by K. M. De Silva and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Therapy written by Dr Sripali Vaiamon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Therapy is an absolutely fantastic piquant plot, delightfully crafted where romance accentuate a high degree of sensuality in an inter-racial marriage between Vije and Dr.Sarani. Vije met with a nasty car accident and his right leg was severely fractured. Sarani with her potentially effective treatment cured him in a short span of time. They opened up a Holiday Resort and an Orthopedic Clinic in the Maldives. She discovered a therapy for painless child birth and HIV virus which brought her laurels. She migrated to Canada where circumstances force her to involve in an undue affair with Vije's brother who was afflicted with Aids. He was gunned down and Vije was taken as prime suspect. He was imposed with death sentence to execute on electric chair according to the new enactment of the Penal code which was introduced to curb the ever escalating homicides in Canada. Vije got a dramatic release from the jail and story moves in suspense. The Therapy provides a clear answer to the existing dissensions and holocausts in every parts of the globe where less knowledgeable people with blind faith and racial misconceptions commit heinous crimes.
Download or read book Pre Historic Lanka to End of Terrorism written by Dr. Sripali Vaiamon and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable material culled during the past fifty- to sixty-years-plus unexplored research data and what acknowledged literati in the world expressed on obscure areas have gone into this publication. Any citizen in a civilized society should be familiar with the historical information, current and ancient, in ones own country and that of others. Here the author has emphasized more on Sri Lanka, where there was an abominable civil war for twenty-six years, massacring over 70,000 innocent civilians and devastating a good part of the country. Author has well exploited how and why such a holocaust originated and dragged on for such a long period, where the lawfully constituted government had to fight to safeguard the citizens of the country to a possible extent, within the international parameters of war with the most ruthless terrorist outfit of the worldLTTE. This compendium undoubtedly will provide meticulous information, wholesome inspiration, and great satisfaction to an avid reader.
Download or read book Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka written by Valli Kanapathipillai and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka' analyses the context of the agreement between the Sri Lankan and Indian government that led to the loss of citizenship of Indian Tamil estate workers in Sri Lanka. Kanapathipillai broadens the focus of scholarship in this area by examining the economic, political and ideological issues that had a bearing on policy decisions.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka written by Charles A. Gunawardena and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,100 alphabetically arranged entries examine the history, geography, people, government, economy, art, and religions of Sri Lanka.
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Download or read book The Picador Book of Cricket written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of, for years. Including Neville Cardus, C. L. R. James, John Arlott, V. S. Naipaul, and C. B. Fry, this anthology is a must for any cricket follower or anyone interested in sports writing elevated to high art.
Download or read book Remapping Sound Studies written by Gavin Steingo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in the global North, this volume broadens the scope of sound studies and challenges some of the field's central presuppositions. The contributors show how approaches to and uses of technology across the global South complicate narratives of technological modernity and how sound-making and listening in diverse global settings unsettle familiar binaries of sacred/secular, private/public, human/nonhuman, male/female, and nature/culture. Exploring a wide range of sonic phenomena and practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors offer diverse ways to remap and decolonize modes of thinking about and listening to sound. Contributors Tripta Chandola, Michele Friedner, Louise Meintjes, Jairo Moreno, Ana María Ochoa Gautier, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Jeff Roy, Jessica Schwartz, Shayna Silverstein, Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes, Benjamin Tausig, Hervé Tchumkam
Download or read book Being a Christian in Sri Lanka written by Leonard Pinto and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people know something about their own religions. That knowledge is usually restricted to what is going on at the present time. When it comes to how their religions developed in their countries, their knowledge is on shakier grounds. As for religion in foreign lands, well, for many, that information is nonexistent. Author Leonard Pinto’s Being a Christian in Sri Lanka: Historical, Political, Social, and Religious Considerations is a critique based on the observations and experience of a Sri Lankan Christian. Pinto shares the history and importance of religion in his native land. You’ll learn about Portuguese, Dutch, and British rule in the country formerly known as Ceylon, and how each affected religion there. Pinto dispels popular views about how ruling countries dealt with Christianity and other religions, and with those who practiced them. You’ll learn how religion is practiced today from someone who lives it firsthand. Pinto’s book goes beyond the boundaries of Sri Lanka in assessing the problems faced by Christianity from the corrosive effects of the Age of Enlightenment. In Being a Christian in Sri Lanka: Historical, Political, Social, and Religious Considerations, Pinto comes to the conclusion Sri Lanka would benefit from a Sri Lankan national identity for all its citizens. Hegemony based on ethnicity and religion is dissuaded. You’ll also find Pinto’s conclusions relevant to other countries.
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