Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics
Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8043341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis B Mcgilvray (University of Colorado System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-263 |
| Publication date | 1982-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500009919 |
| OpenAlex | W2101066790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 15 |
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 for my first anthropological fieldwork. I took only passing notice of the clerks of mixed European and Sri Lankan descent who sold me stationery supplies at Cargill's and mosquito nets at Carvalho's. These people are given the official designation of Burghers in the government census: they are the racially mixed descendants of the Portuguese, Dutch, and British personnel who occupied the island during four and a half centuries of colonial rule
Ancient history · Archaeology · Census · Ceylon · Colonialism · Confusion · Economics · Economy · Ethnic group · Genealogy · Geography · Government (linguistics · Notice · Political science · Population · Portuguese · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Demography · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Exploring the Religious Divide
‘Shake it and Dance
Playing Portuguese
Creole World, Purist Rhetoric
Life is only abroad, not here' the culture of emigration among Anglo-Indians in Madras
My brother from another mother’
Synchronic variation in Sri Lanka Portuguese personal pronouns
Ariane's Thread’
Inhabitants of the universe’
Portuguese in Sri Lanka
Empowering youth in rural, up-country Sri Lanka through gender-equitable education and employment
Current bibliography of urban history
Arabs, Moors and Muslims
Sri Lankan Muslims
Intimate Interactions
Being Portuguese in Malacca
The 1987 Stirling Award Essay
Paraiyar Drummers of Sri Lanka
South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Adjective phrase fronting in the Malacca Creole Portuguese noun phrase
It runs in the family
The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Current Trends in Linguistics
Caste Ideology and Interaction
The Blending of Races
Ethnography of Fertility and Birth
The Fatal History of Portuguese Ceylon
Convergence in South Asia
The Anglo-Indian Community The Integration of a Marginal Group
Ethnicity
Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825
Compadrazgo in Catholic Sri Lanka
The Blending of Races
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,51 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |