1st Edition
Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka The Trouser Under the Cloth
By Anoma Pieris
Copyright 2013
280 Pages
45 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
280 Pages
45 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
280 Pages
45 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political trajectory.
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1. Domesticity and Decolonization 2. Country and City 3. The Trouser Under the Cloth 4. Nationalist Dreams 5. The Pioneers 6. Metropolitan Cultures 7. Domesticating the Nation
Biography
Anoma Pieris is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches design and history in both the undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
