A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka

by Jonathan Spencer

Book Overview

In this illuminating study of a village in southern, central Sri Lanka, Spencer examines how the interrelationship of political, religious, and economic life shapes the community by tracing the village through an election campaign year. He reveals how the village redefined itself in "traditional" terms, while using "modern" politics as an extension of their personal disputes. Undertaken in the years immediately prior to the great escalation of political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195650808
• ISBN13: 9780195650808
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"