Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1967-04
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UCAL:B5396312
University of Ceylon Review
Anonim
University Of Ceylon Review
University Of Ceylon Review Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of University Of Ceylon Review book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Politics in Sri Lanka, the Republic of Ceylon
A.Jeyaratnam Wilson
Author : A.Jeyaratnam Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349015443
Politics in Sri Lanka, the Republic of Ceylon by A.Jeyaratnam Wilson Pdf
Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism
James Egge
Author : James Egge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136859151
Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism by James Egge Pdf
Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.
Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka
Patrick Peebles
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442255852
Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka by Patrick Peebles Pdf
The Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sri Lanka.
Area Handbook for Ceylon
Richard F. Nyrop
Author : Richard F. Nyrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : UIUC:30112106622548
Area Handbook for Ceylon by Richard F. Nyrop Pdf
General study of Sri Lanka - covers historical and geographical aspects, ethnic groups, demographic aspects and social structures, family and kinship, living conditions, education, religion, cultural factors, the government, political leadership, international relations, the economic structure, agriculture, the industrial structure, labour force, trade, financing, the administration of justice, etc. Bibliography pp. 473 to 501, maps and statistical tables.
From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900
Roland Wenzlhuemer
Author : Roland Wenzlhuemer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047432173
From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900 by Roland Wenzlhuemer Pdf
In the early 1880s a disastrous plant disease diminished the yields of the hitherto flourishing coffee plantation of Ceylon. Coincidentally, world market conditions for coffee were becoming increasingly unfavourable. The combination of these factors brought a swift end to coffee cultivation in the British crown colony and pushed the island into a severe economic crisis. When Ceylon re-emerged from this crisis only a decade later, its economy had been thoroughly transformed and now rested on the large-scale cultivation of tea. This book uses the unprecedented intensity and swiftness of this process to highlight the socioeconomic interconnections and dependencies in tropical export economies in the late nineteenth century and it shows how dramatically Ceylonese society was affected by the economic transformation.
University of Colombo Review
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : UOM:39015048783586
University of Colombo Review by Anonim Pdf
In the Shadows of the Tropics
Mr James S Duncan
Author : Mr James S Duncan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409487548
In the Shadows of the Tropics by Mr James S Duncan Pdf
In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English imprints
ISBN : PSU:000030001121
General Catalogue of Printed Books by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf
The Buddhist Analysis of Matter
Y. Karunadasa
Author : Y. Karunadasa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614294672
The Buddhist Analysis of Matter by Y. Karunadasa Pdf
A fluent English explanation of the Theravada Buddhist analysis of matter for serious students of Buddhist thought. In The Buddhist Analysis of Matter, renowned scholar Y. Karunadasa interprets the Buddhist view of matter as presented in Theravada Buddhism, based on the Abhidhamma. His comprehensive work draws on both the earlier period containing the seven manuals of the Abhidhamma Pitaka and the later period containing Abhidhammic commentaries, sub-commentaries, and such compendiums as the Abhidhammatthasangaha of Acariya Anuruddha. In order to bring the subject into a wider perspective, and for more precision, Karunadasa considers the (non-Theravada) Vaibhasika and Sautrantika schools of Buddhism—two of the leading non-Mahayana schools with whom the Theravadins had much in common, both of which subscribed to a realistic view of existence—as well as later sources such as the post-canonical commentaries and related literary sources of Theravada Buddhism. This book gives us the first clear picture of the Buddhist analysis of matter as such. Earlier works on this subject have tended to focus on the broad philosophical implications arising from the Buddhist theory of matter and were based more on earlier sources, such as the Pali canonical texts. The Buddhist Analysis of Matter provides a much-needed micro view of the topic with a detailed examination of the Theravadins’ list of rupa-dammas—the ultimate irreducible factors into which material existence is analyzed. It exposes the basic material elements into which the whole of material existence is resolved and explains their interconnection and interdependence on the basis of conditional relations. It concludes with an understanding of the nature and relevance of the Buddhist analysis of matter in the context of Buddhism as a religion.
Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
James S. Duncan
Author : James S. Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000089820
Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon by James S. Duncan Pdf
This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their “greatest gift.” The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of negotiation to lessen oppressive colonial conditions, and that the cumulative impact caused continual adjustments to the criminal justice system, weighing it down and distorting it. The tactical use of rule of law is explored within the three bureaucracies: the police, the courts and the prisons. Policing was often “governed at a distance” due to fiscal constraints and economic priorities and the enforcement of law was often delegated to underpaid Ceylonese. Spaces of resistance opened up as Ceylon was largely left to manage its own affairs. Villagers, minor officials, as well as senior British government officials, alternately used or subverted the rule of law to achieve their own goals. In the courts, the imported system lacked political legitimacy and consequently the Ceylonese undermined it by embracing it with false cases and information, in the interests of achieving justice as they saw it. In the prisons, administrators developed numerous biopolitical techniques and medical experiments in order to punish prisoners’ bodies to their absolute lawful limit. This limit was one which prison officials, prisoners, and doctors negotiated continuously over the decades. The book argues that the struggles around rule of law can best be understood not in terms of a dualism of bureaucrats versus the public, but rather as a set of shifting alliances across permeable bureaucratic boundaries. It offers innovative perspectives, comparing the Ceylonese experiences to those of Britain and India, and where appropriate to other European colonies. This book will appeal to those interested in law, history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural and political geography.
The Sigiriya Royal Gardens
Nilan Cooray
Author : Nilan Cooray
Publisher : TU Delft
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781480030978
The Sigiriya Royal Gardens by Nilan Cooray Pdf
Besides the efforts that are of a descriptive and celebrative nature, studies related to Sri Lanka's historical built heritage largely view material remains in historical, sociological, socio-historical and semiological perspectives. There is hardly any serious attempt to view such material remains from a technical-analytical approach to understand the compositional aspects of their design. The 5th century AC royal complex at Sigiriya is no exception in this regard. The enormous wealth of information and the material remains unearthed during more than 100 years of field-based research by several generations of archaeologists provide an ideal opportunity for such analysis. The Sigiriya Royal Gardens fills the gap in research related to Sri Lanka's historical built heritage in general, and to Sigiriya in particular. Therefore, the present research attempts to read Sigiriya as a landscape architectonic design to expose its architectonic composition and design instruments.
Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century
Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Ashok K. Dutt,Robert B. Kent
Author : Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Ashok K. Dutt,Robert B. Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429833342
Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century by Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Ashok K. Dutt,Robert B. Kent Pdf
Published in 1998, Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current decline of bi-polar political and ideological blocs; political decentralization and concurrent economic centralization including the growth of multi-national corporations; devolution of centralized planning powers to regions and localities, and the rise and acceptance of sustainable development concepts. The book is divided into five parts addressing: 1 - adjustments to political, economic and social change; 2 the problems of urban housing and housing and health; 3 - adjustments to environmental change, development policies and sustainability; 4 - the problem of rapid urban growth and mega cities; 5 - adjustments of changing urban networks. The contributors are from several countries worldwide and the chapters examine the issues at a global level.
Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Anna Borgos
Author : Anna Borgos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000413434
Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis by Anna Borgos Pdf
This book explores the life, scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant "first generation" Hungarian female psychoanalysts, situating their lives within the wider context of social history and the history of psychoanalysis. Budapest was one of the main centres of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century – in a period which was also central regarding women’s changing roles and possibilities. Favourable social circumstances met a new, freshly developing profession’s need for receptive followers regardless of their sex. This book shines a light on the social and professional factors on the life and work of these first women psychoanalysts, examining documentary evidence of their lives and drawing upon the literature of psychoanalysis, social history, and gender studies. Through their life stories, not only the history of psychoanalysis, but also the processes of 20th-century women’s history and social-political developments in Hungary and the region can be reconstructed. Key psychoanalysts explored include Lilly Hajdu, Edit Gyömrői, Alice Bálint, Vilma Kovács, Lillián Rotter and twelve further women analysts. This important book will be of interest to researchers in gender studies, the history of psychoanalysis, women’s and gender history, and Eastern European history.
Burmese Supernaturalism
Melford E. Spiro
Author : Melford E. Spiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351530378
Burmese Supernaturalism by Melford E. Spiro Pdf
Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years scholars of religion and anthropology have debated the questions: Do these folk beliefs make up a separate religious system? Or is there a subtle merging of supernaturalism and Buddhism, a kind of syncretism? In either case, how exactly does folk religion fit into the overall religious pattern? Melford Spiro's Burmese Supernaturalism has been one of the major works in this debate, both for its position on the "two religions" question and for its arguments concerning the psychological basis of religion. The book begins with an introduction to the study of supernaturalism. The next section of the work covers various types of supernaturalism, including witches, ghost, and demons. Other areas of discussion include supernaturally caused illness and its treatment, the shaman, the exorcist, and the relationship between supernaturalism and Buddhism. In the introduction to this expanded edition Spiro further develops the underlying logic of his argument and evaluates the most recent contributions to the field of the anthropology of religion. Burmese Supernaturalism is an intriguing study and will provide insightful reading for anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, as well as those interested in supernaturalism in Burma (Myanmar) and other cultures.