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"[Levelling Crowds] is a judicious synthesis of Tambiah's wide reading of recent scholarship with his own theoretical commentary. . . .[The book provides] scrupulous analysis of the political and intellectual difficulties we face in coming to terms with collective violence."--"Asian Affairs
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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.
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.
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A somber reality and disillusionment of our epoch, which emerged from the ashes of World War II, is that although there have been successes in the push toward development and modernization, eradication of disease, and the spread of literacy, economic and political development programs have generated and stimulated, whether by collusion or in reaction, in good faith and poor anticipation, massive civil war and gruesome interracial and interethnic bloodshed. Read the first page
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A somber reality and disillusionment of our epoch, which emerged from the ashes of World War II, is that although there have been successes in the push toward development and modernization, eradication of disease, and the spread of literacy, economic and political development programs have generated and stimulated, whether by collusion or in reaction, in good faith and poor anticipation, massive civil war and gruesome interracial and interethnic bloodshed. Read the first page
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Must read by everyone concerned with the evils of ethnicity.,
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This review is from: Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (Paperback)
Superb description of the riots in Asia with obvious applications to the rest of the world. The associated analysis (while too heavy in sociological terminology) should be read by everyone concerned with the twin evils of ethnicity and religion.
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Stanley Tambiah critically analyzes riots in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Examining the riots under a sociological lens provided insight about the motives of collective behavior.
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Must read by everyone concerned with the evils of ethnicity.,
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This review is from: Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (Paperback)
Superb description of the riots in Asia with obvious applications to the rest of the world. The associated analysis (while too heavy in sociological terminology) should be read by everyone concerned with the twin evils of ethnicity and religion.
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