submitted: Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:19:53 BST Dr. Jonathan Spencer Department of Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh Adam Ferguson Building George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, Scotland Phone: 0131-650-3044 (office) FAX: 0131-650-3945 email: jrs@festival.ed.ac.uk Description of work: Sri Lanka, Sinhala Buddhists, social anthropology, politics, violence, ethnicity, communalism, rural change, historical anthropology