...The Ethnology of the “Moors” of Ceylon P. Ramanathan The collective identity of the Sri Lankan Muslims has been a topic of contentious debate since the late nineteenth century, when a prominent Tamil leader, Ponnam- balam Ramanathan, argued that the Moors of Ceylon were simply Tamils whose...

...A Criticism of Mr. Ramanathan’s “Ethnology of the Moors of Ceylon” I. L. M. Abdul Azeez The wealthy, educated, urban-based Muslim leaders in Sri Lanka read Ramana- than’s 1888 ethnological thesis as an attempt to preserve Tamil political hegemony over their community, and they were...

... CHAPTER THREE Combating Guerilla Ethnology n the last hectic food-buying weeks of 1980, an advertisement with an unusual marketing pitch for Roquefort cheese appeared on bus shelters all over Paris. The ad urged people to eat this delicious product of...

... João Pacheco de Oliveira THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS EXPERT Brazilian Ethnology between Indianism and Indigenism Is it the anthropologist’s role to decide whether an individual or a collective can be defined as ‘‘indigenous’’ or, further, to...

... Why Is This Absurd Picture Here? Ethnology/Heterology/Buñuel James F. Lastra If the heterogeneous nature of the slave is akin to that of the filth in which his...

...’’ egypt, ethnology, and the crises of history During the first week of June 1850, a large crowd gathered at the Tremont Temple in Boston...

... This chapter examines the governmental deployments of ethnology both “at home and away” in France as represented by the interwar fieldwork and exhibition practices of the Musée de l’Homme. Focused on the practices of collecting, collectors, and the epistemic circulation of objects and...

...I (7Jark enough fur any man" Sexual Ethnology and Irish Nationalism I ask for a history that deliberately makes visible, within the very structure of its narrative forms, its own repressive strategies and practices, the part it plays in collusion with the narratives of...

... Part I Nation/ Representation 2 Of Origins and Ethnonyms Contested Histories, Productive Ethnologies Oh, heaven, this land is not so good as that former land of ours. In that country of ours, the birds never stopped singing, and the weather was always warm...

...List of Abbreviations ar Annual Report asa Alaska State Archives, Juneau, Alaska ashl Alaska State Historical Library, Juneau, Alaska bae Bureau of American Ethnology bca British Columbia Archives, Victoria, British Columbia bia Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S...

... the Peabody Museum of Haywood Magee / Hulton Archive /  Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Getty Images University ...

... of Northwest Coast Indians at the American Museum of Natural History in 1896; the Maori Ethnology Gallery at Wellington’s Dominion Museum in1936, and the introductory display in the Senegal section of the Sub-Saharan Africa Hall at the Musée de l’Homme in 1938. ...

... continued to work with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in the creation of the building that would be formally named the Tjibaou Cultural Center. The center was inaugurated on 4 May 1998. In this essay I draw a few lessons from this on-the-job encounter between ethnology and architecture. An...

..., based on the latest positivist ethnological, criminological, and social-Darwinist thinking. The defense mixed scholarly erudition with the racial hysteria of public discourse at the turn of the century. ...

... American Council of Learned Societies apa American Psychological Association astp Army Special Training Program astp-fal Army Special Training Program, Foreign Area and Language bae Bureau of American Ethnology bia Bureau of Indian A√airs bsr Bureau of...

... University of California, Riverside. Bien Chiang is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Nola Cooke is a visiting fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. Jean DeBernardi is a professor of anthropology at...

...√erent labels, whether as ‘‘history of ethnology or as ‘‘colonial history As a first example, we can consider the following text from 1925: When a colony includes peoples with a civilization inferior to, or very dif- ferent from, our own, competent ethnologists may be just as urgently...