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Demons and Development

Name: Demons and Development
Brand: University of Arizona Press
SKU: 9780816516391
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The Struggle for Community in a Sri Lankan Village

Autor: James Brow

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Editura: University of Arizona Press

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In contemporary Sri Lanka, long-established modes of rural life are being disrupted in the name of p...

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Autor

James Brow

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1996

Pagini

218

EAN

9780816516391

ISBN

9780816516391

Enbook ID

06323335

Editura

University of Arizona Press

Greutate

440

Dimensiuni

156 x 235 x 18

Descriere completă

In contemporary Sri Lanka, long-established modes of rural life are being disrupted in the name of progress. As this occurs, instances of "demonic possession" have been known to take place incidents that may both express the conflicts that result and attempt to resolve them. When residents of the village of Kukulewa were promised sixty new houses, a factional rift arose between those who benefited from the project and those who did not. The breach between what became in effect two separate villages resulted in both divisive accusations of sorcery and spirit-inspired appeals for cooperation. James Brow witnessed these possession trances and sorcery accusations as they occurred, enabling him to convey this richly textured story interweaving political factionalism and troubled spirits. Official projects of development have proceeded apace in Sri Lanka, but until now there have been few accounts of their tendency to tear apart the fabric of rural society. Demons and Development combines an engaging narrative of how development was experienced in one particular village with an original contribution to theories of hegemony, the social anthropology of South Asia, the ethnography of nationalism, and the sociology of development.