1. Most interviews were audio-recorded and later translated from Sinhala to English by me.
When I was unable to record, I took notes by hand and reconstructed conversations …

At the pilgrimage mountain of Sri Pada (aka Adam's Peak), over one million visitors arrive
annually during the worship season from late December to late May. 1 The majority of …

This chapter foregrounds how young people produce, contest, and negotiate culturally
transmitted patterns of thought and practice. I apply this kind of inquiry to scrutinize the …

Sinhala folk poetry (janakavi) is occasionally mentioned in passing by English-language
scholars of Sinhala literature, yet is rarely subject to rigorous analysis. 1 Janakavi is a wide …

At the pilgrimage mountain of Sri Pada (aka Adam's Peak), over one million visitors arrive
annually during the worship season from late December to late May. 1 The majority of …