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  • - Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka
    by Michele Ruth Gamburd
    £106.49

  • - Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka's Tsunami Disaster
    by Michele Ruth Gamburd
    £12.49 - 57.49

    In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, economic dynamics, and political structures.

  • - The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka
    by Michele Ruth Gamburd
    £26.49 - 92.99

    Gamburd explores the changing role of alcohol consumption in a Sri Lankan village the cultural context for social and antisocial alcohol consumption, insight into everyday and ceremonial drinking, and the illicit alcohol market.

  • - Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids
    by Michele Ruth Gamburd
    £23.49 - 92.99

    A common Sinhala proverb states, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length of the kitchen spoon's handle." In this beautifully written book on the effects of female migration from Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd shows that the length of that...

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