Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village: Shaping Hierarchy and Desire

Contents

vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Sri Lanka: Setting the Ethnographic Context 21 3 Socializing Desire: Demanding Toddlers and Self-­ Restrained Children 42 4 Shaping Attachments: Learning Hierarchy at Home 69 5 Making Sense of Envy: Desires and Relationships in Conflict 112 6 Engaging with Hierarchy outside the Home: Education and Efforts at Change 144 7 Culturing People 168 Notes 181 References 193 Index 205 ...