In that context, the partnership between Dr. However, for many, this book remained largely out of reach, within the preserves of academic scholarship in university libraries abroad. This powerful study deals with themes of dignity, shame, and quotidian violence experience by women and men on and beyond plantations, and combines archival materials and historical knowledge with ethnographic research conducted over a period of almost a decade. Rosaldo Book Prize for its significant contribution to feminist anthropology. It was awarded the 2020 Diane Forsyth Prize for the best book featuring feminist anthropology research and in 2021, it won the Michelle Z. Her book, a work on and of solidarity with the Hill Country Tamils of Sri Lanka, ‘Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Post-war Sri Lanka’ was originally published by the University of Washington Press in 2019 to widespread acclaim. Mythri Jegathesan, of Santa Clara University. It was the launch of a book by Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dr. On a muggy Friday afternoon, the auditorium of the National Library of Sri Lanka slowly filled with an eager audience from Colombo, the Hill Country and beyond.
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