Leveling Crowds : Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia

Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja

Published by Univ. of California Press (1996), Berkeley [CA], 1996

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24x15cm, x,395 pp., Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society, 10. Contents: Selected Sites of Conflict in South Asia: The Wider Context; Orientation & Objectives; The 1915 Sinhala Buddhist-Muslim Riots in Ceylon;Two Postindependence Ethnic Riots in Sri Lanka; Sikh Identity, Separation & Ethnic Conflict; Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan; Rethinking the Nature of Collective Violence: Some General Features of Ethnic Riots & Riot Crowds; The Routinization & Ritualization of Violence; Hindu Nationalism, the Ayodhya Campaign, & the Babri Masjid; Entering a Dark Continent: The Political Psychology of Crowds; Reconfiguring Le Bon & Durkheim on Crowds as Collectives; The Moral Economy of Collective Violence. Front fixed flyleaf torn. Good. Seller Inventory # 019021

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Title: Leveling Crowds : Ethnonationalist Conflicts...

Publisher: Univ. of California Press (1996), Berkeley [CA]

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: orig. boards