Daniel Bass (Lynn University)

Daniel Bass
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Religious Studies
Lynn University
3601 N. Military Trail
Boca Raton FL 33431   USA

phone: 561-237-7484
fax:   561-237-7216
email: dbass6@gmail.com

Keywords:

Sri Lanka, Up-country Tamils, diaspora, tea estates/plantations, 
ethnicity, identity, religion, Hinduism, globalization, labor

Publications:

Of Tea and Tigers: Up-country Tamils in and beyond Sri Lanka (book 
manuscript under reveiw at University of Hawaii Press) 

A Diaspora Next Door:  Up-Country Tamils in Sri Lanka, in Indentureship to 
Globalisation: New Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora, Radica Mahase & 
Jerome Teelucksingh, eds.  Lanham:  Lexington Press (forthcoming 2010).

Agency, Apathy and Alienation: Up-country Tamil Ethnic Solidarity on Sri 
Lankan Tea Plantations, Critical Asian Studies (forthcoming 2010).

Making Sense of the Census: Up-country Tamils and the Contours of Tamil 
Nationalism, in Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka, R. 
Cheran, ed., p. 139-151.  New Delhi: Sage, 2009.

A Place on the Plantations: Up-country Tamil Ethnicity in Sri Lanka.  
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 
2004.

Paper Tigers on the Prowl: Rumors, Violence and Agency in the Up-country 
of Sri Lanka, Anthropological Quarterly 81 (1): 269-296, 2008.

Landscapes of Malaiyaha Tamil Identity.  Marga Monograph Series on Ethnic 
Reconciliation No. 8.  Colombo: Marga Institute, 22 pp., 2001.

Malaiyaha (Up-Country) Identity and Politics in the Twenty-first Century.  
ICES Lecture/ Discussion Series No. 2.  Colombo: International Centre for 
Ethnic Studies, 16 pp., 2000.