Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser Under the Cloth

by Anoma Pieris

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political trajectory.

This book explores positions that are vital to ideas of national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415630029
• ISBN13: 9780415630023
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"