The hybrid island: culture crossings and the invention of identity in Sri Lanka/ edited by Neluka Silva - London: Zed books, 2002. - vii, 177p.

The Hybrid Island - Neluka Silva
1. Where Have All the Vaddas Gone? Buddhism and Aboriginality in Sri Lanka - Gananath Obeyesekere
2. What's in a Name? Aryans and Dravidians in the Making of Sri Lankan Identities - Arjun Guneratne
3. Identity on the Borderline: Modernity, New Ethnicities and the Unmaking of Multiculturalism in Sri Lanka - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
4. From Hybridity to Authenticity: The Biography of a few Kandyan Things - Nira Wickramasinghe
5. The Performance of Hybridity in the Visual Culture of the No Order Group of Sri Lanka - Yolanda Foster
6. Situating the Hybrid 'Other' in an Era of Conflict: Representations of the Burgher in Contemporary Writings in English - Neluka Silva
7. Kiribath: A Search for Good Luck and Common Ground - Vikram Singh8. Baila Music: European Modernity and Afro-Iberian Popular Music in Sri Lanka - Anne Sheeran

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Cultural fusion -- Sri Lanka. Group identity -- Sri Lanka. Race relations.

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