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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 3578 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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"The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."--Arjun Appadurai, Journal of Asian Studies ... Read more

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Brilliant anthropology
This book describes how people use different aspects of their culture to help them face and deal with different psychological dilemmas. Obeyesekere is famous for this kind of first rate analysis. Nevertheless, I wouldn't recommend it for the causal undergrad. I found it dense at first, and then upon a second reading more easily digested it. It was very helpful for my dissertation.

Eurocentric Psychoanalysis continues....
Despite numerous attempts by many practicing psychoanalysts and other scholars, this book applies Freudian theories on South Asian Religions and fails to do justice to Hinduism and Buddhism. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tamil cinema (also referred to as the Cinema of Tamil Nadu, the Tamil film industry, or Chennai film industry) is the Chennai?based Tamil language filmmaking industry of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is based in the Kodambakkam district of Chennai, where several Tamil language feature films are produced, which has led to a colloquial reference to the district and industry as Kollywood, a portmanteau of the words Kodambakkam and Hollywood. ... Read more

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Anne Blackburn explores the emergence of a predominant Buddhist monastic culture in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, while asking larger questions about the place of monasticism and education in the creation of religious and national traditions. Her historical analysis of the Siyam Nikaya, a monastic order responsible for innovations in Buddhist learning, challenges the conventional view that a stable and monolithic Buddhism existed in South and Southeast Asia prior to the advent of British colonialism in the nineteenth century. The rise of the Siyam Nikaya and the social reorganization that accompanied it offer important evidence of dynamic local traditions. Blackburn supports this view with fresh readings of Buddhist texts and their links to social life beyond the monastery.

Comparing eighteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic education to medieval Christian and other contexts, the author examines such issues as bilingual commentarial practice, the relationship between clerical and "popular" religious cultures, the place of preaching in the constitution of "textual communities," and the importance of public displays of learning to social prestige. Blackburn draws upon indigenous historical narratives, which she reads as rhetorical texts important to monastic politics and to the naturalization of particular attitudes toward kingship and monasticism. Moreover, she questions both conventional views on "traditional" Theravadin Buddhism and the "Buddhist modernism" / "Protestant Buddhism" said to characterize nineteenth-century Sri Lanka. This book provides not only a pioneering critique of post-Orientalist scholarship on South Asia, but also a resolution to the historiographic impasse created by post-Orientalist readings of South Asian history. ... Read more

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The Tamils can be defined in terms of the people who speak Tamil as their mother tongue. The Tamil language is a member of the Dravidian/South Indian family of languages. The four southernmost states of India - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andra Pradesh - are predominantly linguistically Dravidian, each state is carved out on the basis of predominance of the four major Dravidian languages. South India and Sri Lanka have been homelands of the Tamils from the beginning of recorded history. The region roughly covered by the modern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala is identified as ancient "tamizakam" up to about 10th century AD. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Tamils migrated to some British colonies in search of employment and thus there are substantial Tamil populations in Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, Fiji and South Africa. These volumes provide an extended introduction to the Tamils by discussing all the important facets that make them so vibrant a society. They are arranged thematically and provide a glimpse into Tamil history, culture, politics, language, literature and social progress. ... Read more

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'The Fuglerud study is a prototype for any anthropologist or political scientist working on a politicised-radicalised Diaspora.' Ethnic Conflict Research Digest 'This book about a recent immigrant group (Sri Lankan Tamils) in a European liberal democracy (Norway) is paradigmatic for how the anthropology of a displaced population ought to be done anywhere in the western world...Based on extensive field research in Norway and brief but insightful research in Sri Lanka, Life on the Outside is an elegant and effective blend of theory and ethnography. One of the very best in refugee studies to date.' E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia University This study of the Tamil diaspora is one of the first full ethnographic studies of a post-colonial migrant community, and a major contribution to the study of migration, globalisation, identity politics and 'long distance' nationalism from an anthropological perspective. Fuglerud's study traces the history of Tamil migration, from the arrival of the economic migrants of the 1960s to the 'asylum seekers' of the mid 1980s onwards.He draws unnerving parallels between the status of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka,as a beleaguered and persecuted minority waging a war of liberation, and as a displaced, marginalised and excluded refugee community. Fuglerud argues that, in the process of displacement,particular aspects of Tamil culture -- marriage, dowry, chastity and ritual -- acquire a heightened significance. He examines the contradictions and inconsistencies which characterise the Tamil refugee communities, and the success of revolutionary Tamil nationalism in exile, highlighting the transnational nature of identity politics. ... Read more

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This research is aimed at investigating the professional cultures of the participants who come together in a construction project. The question posed was whether they shared a culture or had differences, and if differences existed whether these differences had an effect on the reactions of each of the groups to disputes and their resolution. A survey was carried out among professional groupsin Australia and Sri-Lanka and the survey data from both countries were analyzed using statistical tests. The results show that professional groups share similarities in professional culture as well as differences. It also showed that these cultural differences created an adversarial atmosphere among construction project participants. It was also found that introducing a party outside of the usual professional groups would be beneficial in the resolution process. Respondents were of the opinionthat the third party outside of the construction team could be a lawyer.This type of research is till new within the field of construction. The contributions of this work are to link professional culture and conflict and give some indication how such conflict could be addressed ... Read more

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Chapters: Chennai Culture, Film Production Companies of Tamil Nadu, Films Set in Chennai, Hindu Temples in Sri Lanka, Media in Chennai, Newspapers Published in Chennai, Sri Lankan Tamil Culture, Sri Lankan Tamil Literature, Kalakshetra, the Hindu, Hinduism in Sri Lanka, Munneswaram Temple, Tamil Cuisine, Podhigai Tv, Dd Chennai, Aayutha Ezhuthu, Kannathil Muthamittal, Cholamandal Artists' Village, Kandukondain Kandukondain, Iruvar, the Times of India, Alaipayuthey, Chennai Book Fair, Madras Music Academy, Culture of Chennai, List of Hindu Temples in Sri Lanka, Rajasthan Patrika, Avm Productions, Theosophical Society Adyar, Cuisine of Sri Lanka, Nayagan, Uthayan, Kadhalan, Minsara Kanavu, Architecture of Chennai, Dominic Jeeva, Ayngaran International, Boys, Sengai Aaliyan, Vallipuram, Ubayakathirgamam, Koneswaram Temple, Sun Pictures, Madras Talkies, Dinamalar, Sinhalisation, Modern Theatres, Nallur Kandaswamy Temple, Tondeswaram Temple, Madras Music Season, Ketheeswaram Temple, Mr. Romeo, Sudar Oli, the Lbg, Gemini Studios, Dd Madurai, Dd Pudhucherry, Dd Coimbatore, Pyramid Saimira, Masquerade, Naguleswaram Temple, Km Music Conservatory, Puttu, Cloud Nine Movies, Dina Thanthi, Katirkamam, Shakthi Tv, Village Deities of Tamils of Sri Lanka, S Pictures, Development Film Festival, Thirupathi Brothers, S. Kanapathipillai, Connemara Public Library, Gaana, Central Studios, Dinakaran, Deep Woods, B. H. Abdul Hameed, Zee Tamil, the Score Magazine, Yathumaagi, Kandappu Murugesu, Seithigal, Leukos Films, Moksha, C. W. Thamotharampillai, That Four-Letter Word, Karthigesu Sivathamby, Siriththiran, Dina Mani, Virakesari, Down Sterling, Malai Malar, Kungumam, Kavithalayaa Productions, Thinakkural, Tamil Guardian. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 383. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The Ripon Building , Chennai, an example of the... ... Read more

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A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these islands, and the literary experience after independence in these nations. Persistent themes of colonial narratives foreground the aesthetic and ignore the workforce in a representation of island space as idealized, insular, and vulnerable to conquest; an ideal space for management and control. English landscape has been replicated in islands through literature and in reality - the 'Great House' being an ideological symbol of power.Island Paradise: The Myth investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. It analyzes texts which focus on gardens, island space, and houses to examine how these motifs are used to re-vision colonial/contested sites. This book examines the relationship between landscape and identity and, with reference to Homi K. Bhabha, considers how these writers offer an alternative space for negotiating the ambivalence of hybridity. ... Read more

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Sri Lanka has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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Recognizing the significance of cultural aspects in the practice of medicine, this book places a strong emphasis on the social structure, customs, and history of the indigenous population and its ramifications on health care providers. The book also considers the econo-cultural influences on the way medicine is practiced. By including chapters that focus on health care's sudden advent as commodity and the microeconomic approach to public funding for health care facilities, the Nichters explore a world in which money and patients' expectations play an ever increasing role in the way health care is provided.
In this recently revised and updated edition of Anthropology and International Health, prominent anthropologists Mark and Mimi Nichter examine some of the most significant health problems facing Southern Asia today and provide a critical assessment of the ways these problems are approached by those directly engaged in primary health care. This series of informative essays demonstrates th