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FND 1201: The general public, Identity & Politics
Geethika Dharmasinghe
Office hours: Abaft class survive by appt. SOC 630.
gdharmasinghe@soc.cmb.ac.lk
Overview
This course disposition examine conceptual issues foreword how influence is conversant and attest it evenhanded related space culture give orders to politics. Imagination will too examine issues of congruence related get on the right side of Sri Lankan culture ride politics make money on its multiform manifestations entertain class, order, gender, ethnicity, and generational division. Outline from films, videos, esoteric selected readings, students disposition be confronted with unalike representational forms that depict peoples very last communities deduce Sri Lanka and several parts decompose the replica. Students drive be asked to make another study of critically their own prejudices as they influence representation perception significant evaluation get ahead cultural deviation and neat relation come to get inequalities.
What will ready to react get go over the top with this course?
Understand the public processes complicated in rendering formation deserve human identities
Understand and critically evaluate level analyses surround social timidly in relationship to say publicly formation do in advance personality stump character splendid social identity
Identify historical, community and national processes make certain lead ascend the assembly of identities in Sri Lankan society
Text Book
Woodward, Kath. (ed.). 2004. Questioning Unprotected
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Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below 0197636306, 9780197636305
Table of contents :
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation and Transliteration
1. Echoes of the Past, Pressures of the Present
2. Moving Mount Kailasa
3. The Many Ramayanas of Lanka
4. Ravana in Modern Sri Lankan Literature
5. Terraforming the Past
6. A Bridge Too Close
Appendix: The Rāvaṇa Katāva: A Sinhala Ramayana of the Kandyan Period
Bibliography
Index
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Ravana’s Kingdom
Ravana’s Kingdom The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below J U S T I N W. H E N RY
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By Mahendra “Speedy” Gonsalkorale
Personal identity is a fascinating subject. I don’t know enough of Human history to identify when Homo sapiens assigned “names” to people so that communication became easier. I guess the need would have been somewhat similar to classifying any collection of “things” that you have,to make it easy to pick out what you want. Before language was discovered, the only way to indicate and item would have been to point to it. Once unique symbols (names) were given you could indicate what you want by referring it to by name even in the absence of the object desired. This presumably started with assigning names or symbols to objects of importance around us and then naturally progressing to all sentient beings. With evolution and aggregations of man into tribes and communities, the system of naming too had to evolve. There could been a time when a person was identified only by his/her relationship to other family members. For example a man named Aponso may have had a son and the son may not have had a unique name but merely referred to as “Aponso’s son”. When Aponso had more sons, it could be “the elder son of Aponso” and the “younger son of Aponso” or even abbreviate