Comments on: USA Fears Loss of Sri Lanka http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/07/30/usa-fears-loss-of-sri-lanka/ Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tweets that mention USA Fears Loss of Sri Lanka « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY -- Topsy.com http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/07/30/usa-fears-loss-of-sri-lanka/#comment-12373 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:21:43 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=10125#comment-12373 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jinjirrie, Maximilian Forte, Mohammed Maree, Samina Lindström, Khadija Patel and others. Khadija Patel said: An interesting read- USA Fears Loss of Sri Lanka « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY – http://goo.gl/jYmZ [...]

]]> By: Maximilian Forte http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/07/30/usa-fears-loss-of-sri-lanka/#comment-12371 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:57:18 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=10125#comment-12371 Coincidentally, a former professor of mine at Adelaide, Dr. Michael Roberts, likely Sri Lanka’s leading historian and political anthropologist, has been building a rather massive and dense blog that you might interesting, devoted to ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict in Sri Lanka:

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Since his site links to the Sri Lanka Guardian, it’s likely that he would have seen your article, John.

A note for anthropology readers: Michael had a tough time as my supervisor at the time, as I then tended to favour instumentalist notions of ethnicity. Since then, I have instead come around much more closely to his views, which I describe as anti-anti-essentialism, some of which I wrote about early on in this blog. He is great scholar of (post)colonialism and I credit him for providing some of my main inspirations…not that I would blame him for anything on this site ;-)

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