Sri Lanka

This dissertation questions the assumption that there is an inherent link between music and identity. In Part One, I provide an historical anthropology of the global dissemination of identity discourses on the arts and their development on the island nation of Sri Lanka, to demo…

Developing countries have unique challenges and minimal resources resulting in vulnerability to psychological distress. International research suggests youth in developing countries are often impacted by adversity. Resilience reduces the effects of adversity. Kent, Davis and Rei…

My thesis explores a violent episode which took place in a Sinhala village in Sri Lanka. Thisepisode involved a series of events which unfolded between November 1989-January 1990,when 22 schoolboys were abducted from their homes, tortured and killed by personnel basedat a neighb…

Alek Fraser spent most of his adult life in the world of education in the British colonies. His tenure of office as Principal of Trinity College, Kandy, one of Ceylon's most prestigious schools for boys, ran from 1904 to 1924 and covered a period of immense educational, societal…