Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Tables xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Note on Transliteration xvii
7. Part 1. Framing fieldwork in the Batticaloa region
8. Introduction 3
9. Chapter 1. The Research Setting 21
10. Part 2. Problems of history and anthropology
11. Chapter 2. Past and Present 55
12. Chapter 3. Issues in Comparative Ethnography 97
13. Part 3. Tamil and Muslim social structure
14. Chapter 4. Views of the Tamil Caste Hierarchy 149
15. Chapter 5. The Tamil High Caste Alliance 167
16. Chapter 6. The Kudi in Action 189
17. Chapter 7. A Profile of the Tamil Specialist Castes 210
18. Chapter 8. The Moors: Matrilineal Muslims 266
19. Chapter 9. Muslim Elites and Specialists 292
20. Part 4. Ethnicity, Conflict, and the War in the East
21. Chapter 10. Ethnic Identities and Communal Violence 313
22. Epilogue: Fieldnotes from the War Zone 331
23. Appendix 1. Tamil Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu 365
24. Appendix 2. Moorish Kinship Terms in Akkaraipattu 367
25. Notes 369
26. Glossary 389
27. Bibliography 395
28. Index 419