Sri Lanka At the crossroads of history

By:

Biedermann, Zoltan [Editor]

Contributor(s):

Strathern, Allen [Editor]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Analytics: Show analyticsPublication details: London UCL Press 2017Description: 396pISBN:

9789811201424

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

SL 90 SRI

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Summary: The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a 'crossroads', a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean. Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Reference Books	ICES Colombo Lending and Reference Section	General Book Collections	130 SRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	007645
Reference Books	ICES Kandy Ready Reference Section	General Book Collections	SL 90 SRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	K008930

The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a 'crossroads', a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean. Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time.

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