For nearly two and a half millennia, Sri Lanka has figured in the Western imagination. Anthropologizing Sri Lanka examines how contemporary anthropologists have constructed and misconstrued this complex country's culture. Susantha Goonatilake contends that postcolonial anthropology relating to Sri Lanka is worse than anything colonial anthropology wrought and, in fact, worse than the colonial writings of the 19th and early 20th centuries on the southeast Asian nation. That this has happened after the period of questioning ...
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For nearly two and a half millennia, Sri Lanka has figured in the Western imagination. Anthropologizing Sri Lanka examines how contemporary anthropologists have constructed and misconstrued this complex country's culture. Susantha Goonatilake contends that postcolonial anthropology relating to Sri Lanka is worse than anything colonial anthropology wrought and, in fact, worse than the colonial writings of the 19th and early 20th centuries on the southeast Asian nation. That this has happened after the period of questioning and decolonization that anthropology went through in the 1960s and 1970s is all the more puzzling.
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