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9781560985730

Legends of People, Myths of State : Violence, Intolerance and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia

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    9781560985730

  • ISBN10:

    1560985739

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-12-01
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr

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Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Reissue vii(24)
Introduction xxxi
1 Cultures of Nationalism Political Cosmology and the Passions
1(28)
Part I Evil and the State Sinhalese Nationalism, Violence, and the Power of Hierarchy 29(92)
2 Ethnic Violence and the Force of History in Legend
29(20)
3 Evil, Power, and the State
49(36)
4 Ideological Practice, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Passions
85(36)
Part 2 People against the State Australian Nationalism and Egalitarian Individualism 121(98)
5 When the World Crumbles and the Heavens Fall In War, Death, and the Creation of Nation
121(28)
6 But the Band Played "Waltzing Matilda" National Ceremonial and the Anatomy of Egalitarianism
149(34)
7 Ethnicity and Intolerance Egalitarian Nationalism and Its Political Practice
183(26)
8 Nationalism, Tradition, and Political Culture
209(10)
Notes 219(26)
References 245(14)
Index 259

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