Publications
Books & Monographs
Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka
Durham and London: Duke University Press 2008.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4137-6 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4161-1 (paper)
Available from: Duke University Press
Muslim Perspectives on the Sri Lankan Conflict (co-authored by Mirak Raheem)
Policy Studies 41. Washington DC: East-West Center 2007
ISBN 987-1-932728-66-8 (paper)
Free PDF download from:
East-West Center Washington DC
Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health, and Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka
Ahmedabad: Mapin 1998, Middletown NJ: Grantha 1998 (Reprinted 2003)
ISBN 81-85822-52-2 (Mapin), ISBN 0-944142-87-7 (Grantha)
Available from: Amazon.com
Caste Ideology and Interaction (edited)
Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 9. Cambridge University Press 1982
ISBN 0-521-24145-6 (cloth). ISBN-13: 9780521105002 (paper, print on demand)
Available from: Cambridge University Press
In press
Dennis B. McGilvray and Michele R. Gamburd, eds., Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
London and New York: Routledge.
Website: Publisher website
Dowry in Batticaloa: the Historical Transformation of a Matrilineal Property System.
in H.L. Seneviratne, ed. The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere. Florence University
Press and Munshiram Manoharlal. In press.
JournAL articles
Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka: An Anthropologist Confronts the Real World.
India Review 5(3-4): 372-393. July/October 2006. Special issue on public anthropology. Download PDF
Tamil and Muslim Identities in the East
Marga Journal new series 1(1): 79-116. January/March 2003. Colombo: Marga Institute. Download PDF
Arabs, Moors, and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim Ethnicity in Regional Perspective.
Contributions to Indian Sociology 32(2): 433-483. December 1998. Download PDF
Tamils and Muslims in the Shadow of War: Schism or Continuity?
South Asia 20: 239-253. Special issue 1997. Download PDF
The 1987 Stirling Award Essay: Sex, Repression, and Sanskritization in Sri Lanka?
Ethos 16(2): 99-127. June 1988. Download PDF
Paraiyar Drummers of Sri Lanka: Consensus and Constraint in an Untouchable Caste.
American Ethnologist 10(1): 97-115. February 1983. Download PDF
Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics: Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 24(2): 235-263. Download PDF
book chapters
The Portuguese Burghers of Eastern Sri Lanka in the Wake of Civil War and Tsunami
In: Jorge Flores, ed. Re-exploring the Links: History and Constructed Histories between Portugal and Sri Lanka.
Maritime Asia 18. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2007: 325-347 + 3 color plates. Download PDF
Jailani: A Sufi Shrine in Sri Lanka
In: Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld, eds. Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict
Delhi: Social Science Press / New York and Oxford: Berghahn 2004: 273-289. Download PDF
Households in Akkaraipattu: Dowry and Domestic Organization among the Matrilineal Tamils and Moors of Sri Lanka
In: John N. Gray and David J. Mearns, eds. Society from the Inside Out: Anthropological Perspectives on the South
Asian Household. New Delhi: Sage 1989: 192-235. Download PDF
Introduction
Dennis B. McGilvray, ed. Caste Ideology and Interaction. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 9.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982: 1-7. Download PDF
Mukkuvar Vannimai: Tamil Caste and Matriclan Ideology in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
In: Dennis B. McGilvray, ed. Caste Ideology and Interaction. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 9.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982: 34-97. Download PDF
Sexual Power and Fertility in Sri Lanka: Batticaloa Tamils and Moors
In: Carol P. MacCormack, ed. Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. London: Academic Press 1982: 25-73.
(2nd edition, Waveland Press 1994: 15-63). Download PDF
other publications
Muslim Folklore, Sri Lanka
In: Margaret Mills, Peter Claus, and Sara Diamond, eds. South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia.
New York and London: Routledge 2003: 419-423. Download PDF
Sri Lanka, Tamil
In: Margaret Mills, Peter Claus, and Sara Diamond, eds. South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia.
New York and London: Routledge 2003: 577-578. Download PDF
A Few Selected Excerpts from My Sri Lanka Fieldwork Diary 1969-1971
Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter 1(2): 6-7. November 1989. Download PDF
Village Sufism in Sri Lanka: An Ethnographic Report
Lettre d’Information 8: 1-12. January 1988. Programme de recherches interdisciplinaires sur le monde Musulman
peripherique, Centre d’etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, EHESS Paris. Download PDF
Pukkai
In: Jessica Kuper, ed. The Anthropologists’ Cookbook. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1977: 194-197,
New York: Universe Press 1978. Reprinted Routledge 1998. Download PDF
