The Hybrid Island: Culture Crossings and the Invention of Identity in Sri Lanka

Anagarika Dharmapala ancestry Arasanayagam artists Aryan authentic baila baila music Bastiansz become Bhabha British Buddhist Burgher woman caste century Ceylon Ceylonese classification Colombo colonial census communities construction contemporary context cultural hybridity cultural mixing dance Deviyo Dewaraja discourses displaced diverse dominant Dravidian kinship dress essay ethnic groups ethnic identity European Gananath Obeyesekere gender Hindu hybridity identity politics ideology Indo-Aryan island Jaffna jutas Kandy Kandyan Kataragama king Kiri Banda kiribath language linguistic living low-country LTTE Mahavamsa marriage miscegenation modern multicultural Muslim myth Nä Yaka Nä Yakku narratives nationalism nationalist native Obeyesekere Ondaatje Ondaatje's Order Group Pattini poems popular population Portuguese post-colonial practices pretas priest purity race racial Radio Ceylon region religion religious ritual Seligmanns sexual Sinhala Sinhala and Tamil Sinhala-Buddhist Sinhalese social society South Asia South India Sri Lanka symbols term Thenuwara throne tradition transformed Trautmann Väddas Vanni Vanni Districts Veddas villages violence western women