Jonathan Spencer

Jonathan Spencer is a social anthropologist from the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a professor of Anthropology of South Asia. His field of interest include nationalism, politics, Buddhism and Sri Lanka. He has published many works on politics of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan civil war. [cite web|title= Staff profile:Jonathan Spencer
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Notable Publications

*A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka (1990) - Oxford University Press
*Post-colonialism and the Political Imagination (1997)
*Fatima and the Enchanted Toffees: An Essay on Contingency, Narrative and Therap (1997)
*On Not Becoming a Terrorist: Problems of Memory, Agency and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict (2000) - University of California Press
*British Social Anthropology: A Retrospective
*Anthropology, Politics and the State: Democracy and Violence in South Asia (2007) - Cambridge University Press

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