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In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11.

Politique et culture --- Violence politique --- Anthropologie politique --- Démocratie --- Political anthropology --- Politics and culture --- Political violence --- Democracy --- South Asia --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic relations. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Political aspects --- Anthropological aspects --- Asia, South --- Asia, Southern --- Indian Sub-continent --- Indian Subcontinent --- Southern Asia --- Orient --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque is based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka's most religiously diverse and politically troubled region in the closing years of the civil war. It provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the promise of a religiously based civil society, and the strengths and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders in conflict mediation.--Provided by publisher

War --- Peace --- Ethnic conflict --- Peace (Theology) --- Religion and peace --- Prayers for peace --- War (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- War and religion --- Religious aspects. --- War and society. --- Society and war --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Sri Lanka. --- Sri Lanka --- Taprobane --- Srilanka --- Ilaṅkai --- Ceylon --- Lankā --- Laṃkā --- Demokratische Sozialistische Republik Sri Lanka --- Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka --- Shri Lanka --- Republik Sri Lanka --- Sri Lanker --- XX.05.1972 --- -Cellao --- Ilaṅkai --- Lanka --- Serendib --- Serendip --- Sī Langk --- Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya --- Śrīlaṅk --- Zeilan

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Political systems --- South Asia

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Ethnology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Encyclopedias. --- Encyclopédies --- #SBIB:39A1 --- Antropologie: algemeen

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