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The Buddhist Monkhood, the Law, and the State in Colonial Sri Lanka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Steven Kemper
Steven Kemper
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Bates College
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Neither the unremitting imposition of alien ways nor the faithful preservation of local ones, colonialism proceeds by the melding of imperial practices with indigenous social forms, creating new arrangements that look like old ones. Moreover, colonialism is an intersubjective, interpractical relationship; as a growing number of historical and anthropological studies have shown, the natives are unlikely to be passive receivers of imposed forms. However difficult their circumstances, the colonized busily construe and misconstrue the colonizers and their social practices, manipulating both to their own advantage. What follows is a “working misunderstanding.”

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Law and Religion
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 401 - 427
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1984

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