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Leveling crowds : ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia
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ISBN: 0520206428 0520200020 Year: 1996 Volume: 10 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

Sri Lanka : ethnic fratricide and the dismantling of democracy
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ISBN: 0226789519 9780226789514 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,

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World conqueror and world renouncer : a study of Buddhism and polity in Thailand against a historical background
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ISBN: 0521292905 0521211409 051155818X 9780521211406 9780521292900 9780511558184 Year: 1977 Volume: 15 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand. The book conveys the historical background necessary for full comprehension of the contemporary structural relationship between Buddhism, the sangha (monastic order), and the polity, including the historic institution of kingship. Professor Tambiah delineates the overall relationship, as postulated in early Buddhism, between the monk's otherworldly quest on one side and the this-worldly ordinating role of the monarchy on the other. He also examines the complementary and dialectical tensions that occur in this classical relationship, the king's duty to both protect and purify the sangha being a notable example.

Edmund Leach : an anthropological life
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ISBN: 0521808243 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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Leveling crowds
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ISBN: 0520918193 0585087075 9780520918191 9780585087078 9780520206427 0520206428 0520200020 0520206428 Year: 1996 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian "riots" in South Asia, using selected instances in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India. He situates these riots in the larger political, economic, and religious contexts in which they took place and also examines the strategic actions and motivations of their principal agents. In applying a wide range of social theory to the problems of ethnic and religious violence, Tambiah pays close attention to the history and culture of the region. On one level this provocative book is a scrupulously detailed anthropological and historical study, but on another it is an attempt to understand the social and political changes needed for a more humane order, not just in South Asia, but throughout the world.

The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets : a study in charisma, hagiography, sectarianism, and millennial Buddhism
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ISBN: 0511869037 0511558171 0521259843 0521277876 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the country's periphery, but once recognized as holy men endowed with charisma, they became the radiating centres of a country-wide cult of amulets. The amulets, blessed by the saints, are avidly sought by royalty, ruling generals, intelligentsia and common folk alike for their alleged powers to influence the success of worldly transactions, whether political, economic, martial or romantic.

Buddhism betrayed? Religion, politcs, and violence in Sri Lanka.
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ISBN: 0226789500 Year: 1992 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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