Dennis B Mcgilvray
Biographic Data
| ID | 101209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis B Mcgilvray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis B |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgilvray |
| SIGNATURE | MCGILVRAY D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Matrilocal Marriage and Women’s Property among the Moors of Sri Lanka
The Muslims, or ‘Moors’, of Sri Lanka are a Tamil-speaking minority representing 9 per cent of the population, nearly one third of whom live in the agricultural easternmost region, where they share a distinctive matrilineal and matrilocal family system with their Tamil Hindu neighbours. Despite the destructive 2004 tsunami and the decades-long war with the Tamil Tigers, the basic pattern of Moorish women’s dowry and property rights has been trace…
A matrilineal Sufi shaykh in Sri Lanka
This article explores the influence of local concepts of matrilineal kinship and descent through women in the construction of a modern Sufi silsila (an authorized ‘chain’ of spiritual and genealogical ancestry) in Sri Lanka. Makkattar Vappa, a popular Sufi shaykh in the Tamil-speaking eastern region of the island, asserts hereditary maulana (sayyid) status as a member of the Prophet’s household descent group (ahlul bayt) by means of close genealo…
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
Part 1: Overview and Context 1. Introduction Michele R. Gamburd and Dennis B. McGilvray 2. Building the Conflict Back Better: The Politics of Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka Alan Keenan 3. Conflict, Coastal Vulnerability, and Resiliency in Tsunami-Affected Communities Randall Kuhn Part 2: Ethnographic Materials 4. The Golden Wave: Discourses on the Equitable Distribution of Tsunami Aid on Sri Lanka's Southwest Coast Michele R. Gamb…
Hastrup, Frida: Weathering the World. Recovery in theWake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village
Anthropos , Seite 622 - 623
Sri Lankan Muslims: Between ethno-nationalism and the global ummah
Sri Lanka's Sunni Muslims or "Moors", who make up eight percent of the population, are the country's third largest ethnic group, after the Buddhist Sinhalese (seventy-four per cent) and the Hindu Tamils (eighteen per cent). Although the armed LTTE (Tamil Tiger) rebel movement was defeated militarily by government forces in May 2009, the island's Muslims still face the long-standing external threats of ethno-linguistic Tamil nationalism and pro-Si…
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic: Democratic Practice in South India. Bernard Bate
Sri Lanka's Post‐Tsunami Recovery: Cultural Traditions, Social Structures and Power Struggles
Keywords: commentary, disaster, tsunami, Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, ethnicity, development, ecology and environment, Southern Asia
Pilgrimage to Kataragama, Sri Lanka
Crucible of conflict: Tamil and Muslim society on the east coast of Sri Lanka
Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka
Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnography of Sri Lanka's east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka broke out i…
Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras . Thomas R. Trautmann
Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka: An Anthropologist Confronts the Real World
Product Review: Ethnic Attachments in Sri Lanka: Social Change and Cultural Continuity
Arabs, Moors and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim ethnicity in regional perspective
In the context of Sri Lanka's inter-ethnic conflict between the Tamils and the Sinhalese, the Tamil- speaking Muslims or Moors occupy a unique position. Unlike the historically insurrectionist Māppilas of Kerala or the assimilationist Marakkāyars of coastal Tamilnadu, the Sri Lankan Muslim urban elite has fostered an Arab Islamic identity in the 20th century which has severed them from the Dravidian separatist campaign of the Hindu and Christian …
Tamils and Muslims in the shadow of war: Schism or continuity
Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. Kalpana RAM
Patrons, Devotees and Goddesses: Ritual and Power among the Tamil Fishermen of Sri Lanka
The Female Bridegroom: A Comparative Study of Life Crisis Rituals in South India and Sri Lanka
Life-crisis cycles in South India and Sri Lanka three villages caste, agriculture, and the local economy inter-caste presentations relationship terminologies marriage rules and behaviour puberty rites in the three villages the local wedding ceremony rituals of birth and infancy death ritual other ethnographic examples modes of interpretation an analysis of the ritual cycle in Terku Vandanam the social identities of ritual participants the overall…
Writing Within: Anthropology, Nationalism, and Culture in Sri Lanka [and Comments and Reply]
The Cult of Draupadi
Ahimsa, Non‐Violence . 1987. Produced by Marion Hunt and directed by Michael Tobias
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Women and Children in a Bengali Village . Ronald P. Rohner and Manjusri Chaki‐Sircar
A Few Selected Excerpts From My Sri Lanka Fieldwork Diary 1969-1971
The 1987 Stirling Award Essay: Sex, Repression, and Sanskritization in Sri Lanka
Caste Ideology and Interaction
Arabs, Moors and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim ethnicity in regional perspective
In the context of Sri Lanka's inter-ethnic conflict between the Tamils and the Sinhalese, the Tamil- speaking Muslims or Moors occupy a unique position. Unlike the historically insurrectionist Māppilas of Kerala or the assimilationist Marakkāyars of coastal Tamilnadu, the Sri Lankan Muslim urban elite has fostered an Arab Islamic identity in the 20th century which has severed them from the Dravidian separatist campaign of the Hindu and Christian …
Writing Within: Anthropology, Nationalism, and Culture in Sri Lanka [and Comments and Reply]
Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka
Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnography of Sri Lanka's east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka broke out i…
The Female Bridegroom: A Comparative Study of Life Crisis Rituals in South India and Sri Lanka
Life-crisis cycles in South India and Sri Lanka three villages caste, agriculture, and the local economy inter-caste presentations relationship terminologies marriage rules and behaviour puberty rites in the three villages the local wedding ceremony rituals of birth and infancy death ritual other ethnographic examples modes of interpretation an analysis of the ritual cycle in Terku Vandanam the social identities of ritual participants the overall…
Sri Lankan Muslims: Between ethno-nationalism and the global ummah
Sri Lanka's Sunni Muslims or "Moors", who make up eight percent of the population, are the country's third largest ethnic group, after the Buddhist Sinhalese (seventy-four per cent) and the Hindu Tamils (eighteen per cent). Although the armed LTTE (Tamil Tiger) rebel movement was defeated militarily by government forces in May 2009, the island's Muslims still face the long-standing external threats of ethno-linguistic Tamil nationalism and pro-Si…
Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics: Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Historians and anthropologists in Sri Lanka have tended to migrate in opposite directions, but away from the multiethnic confusion of the port cities. Typi- cally, the heterogeneous, semi-Westernized, postcolonial urban society of Colombo and the larger towns has been only a transit point on intellectual journeys outbound to European archives or inbound to “traditional culture.” This was certainly my viewpoint as I arrived “inbound” in Sri Lanka …
The Cult of Draupadi
Paraiyar Drummers of Sri Lanka: Consensus and Constraint in an Untouchable Caste
While a number of writers have argued that untouchable castes in South Asia are alienated from, and exploited by, the larger high-caste society and culture of which they are the lowest part, Moffatt has recently argued that untouchables in Tamilnadu, south India, nevertheless share a deep "cultural consensus" with the higher castes concerning the basic values and assumptions of the caste system. Using contrasting data on untouchable Tamil Paraiya…
The 1987 Stirling Award Essay: Sex, Repression, and Sanskritization in Sri Lanka
Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka 1500-1931
Tamils and Muslims in the shadow of war: Schism or continuity
A matrilineal Sufi shaykh in Sri Lanka
This article explores the influence of local concepts of matrilineal kinship and descent through women in the construction of a modern Sufi silsila (an authorized ‘chain’ of spiritual and genealogical ancestry) in Sri Lanka. Makkattar Vappa, a popular Sufi shaykh in the Tamil-speaking eastern region of the island, asserts hereditary maulana (sayyid) status as a member of the Prophet’s household descent group (ahlul bayt) by means of close genealo…
Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka: An Anthropologist Confronts the Real World
Pilgrimage to Kataragama, Sri Lanka
Caste Ideology and Interaction
Seven Community Profiles
Kinship in Bengali Culture
Ethnology: Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System. Morton Klass
Caste Ideology and Interaction
Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach, ed., Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1960), much additional information was gathered on caste hierarchies in South Asia, and two major attempts were made to identify the underlying unity of this material - a structuralist one by Louis Dumont and a ethnosocialogical one by McKim Marriott et al. This quest for unity seemed attractive, yet at the same time, as the…
Mukkuvar vannimai: Tamil caste and matriclan ideology in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Hence it is true that the ideology in which we see the conscious centre of caste can be lacking here or there within the Indian world, and observation of these cases is of the greatest interest, to show us to what extent and in what conditions institutions of this kind can survive the weakening or disappearance of their ideological aspect.(Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus, 1970: 46)
Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics: Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Historians and anthropologists in Sri Lanka have tended to migrate in opposite directions, but away from the multiethnic confusion of the port cities. Typi- cally, the heterogeneous, semi-Westernized, postcolonial urban society of Colombo and the larger towns has been only a transit point on intellectual journeys outbound to European archives or inbound to “traditional culture.” This was certainly my viewpoint as I arrived “inbound” in Sri Lanka …
Crste and Other Inequlties: Essays on inequality. Gerald D. Berreman
Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka 1500-1931
Paraiyar Drummers of Sri Lanka: Consensus and Constraint in an Untouchable Caste
While a number of writers have argued that untouchable castes in South Asia are alienated from, and exploited by, the larger high-caste society and culture of which they are the lowest part, Moffatt has recently argued that untouchables in Tamilnadu, south India, nevertheless share a deep "cultural consensus" with the higher castes concerning the basic values and assumptions of the caste system. Using contrasting data on untouchable Tamil Paraiya…
Caste Ideology and Interaction
The 1987 Stirling Award Essay: Sex, Repression, and Sanskritization in Sri Lanka
Ahimsa, Non‐Violence . 1987. Produced by Marion Hunt and directed by Michael Tobias
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Women and Children in a Bengali Village . Ronald P. Rohner and Manjusri Chaki‐Sircar
A Few Selected Excerpts From My Sri Lanka Fieldwork Diary 1969-1971
Writing Within: Anthropology, Nationalism, and Culture in Sri Lanka [and Comments and Reply]
The Cult of Draupadi
The Female Bridegroom: A Comparative Study of Life Crisis Rituals in South India and Sri Lanka
Life-crisis cycles in South India and Sri Lanka three villages caste, agriculture, and the local economy inter-caste presentations relationship terminologies marriage rules and behaviour puberty rites in the three villages the local wedding ceremony rituals of birth and infancy death ritual other ethnographic examples modes of interpretation an analysis of the ritual cycle in Terku Vandanam the social identities of ritual participants the overall…
Patrons, Devotees and Goddesses: Ritual and Power among the Tamil Fishermen of Sri Lanka
Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. Kalpana RAM
Tamils and Muslims in the shadow of war: Schism or continuity
Arabs, Moors and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim ethnicity in regional perspective
In the context of Sri Lanka's inter-ethnic conflict between the Tamils and the Sinhalese, the Tamil- speaking Muslims or Moors occupy a unique position. Unlike the historically insurrectionist Māppilas of Kerala or the assimilationist Marakkāyars of coastal Tamilnadu, the Sri Lankan Muslim urban elite has fostered an Arab Islamic identity in the 20th century which has severed them from the Dravidian separatist campaign of the Hindu and Christian …
Product Review: Ethnic Attachments in Sri Lanka: Social Change and Cultural Continuity
Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka: An Anthropologist Confronts the Real World
Crucible of conflict: Tamil and Muslim society on the east coast of Sri Lanka
Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka
Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnography of Sri Lanka's east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka broke out i…
Sociology (22 works) · History (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Sri lanka (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Law (13 works) · South asia (13 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (13 works) · History (12 works)