Books & Monographs
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
Dennis B. McGilvray and Michele R. Gamburd, eds.
London and New York: Routledge 2010
ISBN 978-0-415-77877-0 (cloth), 978-0-415-50001-2 (pbk), 978-0-203-85651-2 (ebook)
Available from: Routledge
Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka
Durham and London: Duke University Press 2008.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4137-6 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4161-1 (paper)
Available from: Duke University Press and Amazon.com
Muslim Perspectives on the Sri Lankan Conflict (co-authored with Mirak Raheem)
Policy Studies 41. Washington DC: East-West Center 2007
ISBN 987-1-932728-66-8 (paper)
Free PDF download from: East-West Center Washington DC
Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health, and Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka
Ahmedabad: Mapin 1998, Middletown NJ: Grantha 1998 (Reprinted 2003)
ISBN 81-85822-52-2 (Mapin), ISBN 0-944142-87-7 (Grantha)
Available from: Barnes and Noble.com and Amazon.com
Caste Ideology and Interaction (edited)
Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 9. Cambridge University Press 1982
ISBN 0-521-24145-6 (cloth). ISBN-13: 9780521105002 (paper, print on demand)
Available from: Cambridge University Press
In Progress
A House for Every Daughter: Matrilocal Marriage in Sri Lanka and Beyond - Dennis B. McGilvray, ed. In preparation.
Observing Batticaloa: Dutch Accounts of Eastern Ceylon, 1676-1794 - Dennis B. McGilvray, ed. In preparation.
Journal Articles
A Matrilineal Sufi Shaykh in Sri Lanka.
South Asia History and Culture 5(2):246-261. April 2014.
Sri Lankan Muslims: Between Ethno-nationalism and the Global Ummah.
Nations and Nationalism 17(1):45-64. January 2011.
Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka: An Anthropologist Confronts the Real World.
India Review 5(3-4): 372-393. July/October 2006. Special issue on public anthropology.
Tamil and Muslim Identities in the East
Marga Journal new series 1(1): 79-116. January/March 2003. Colombo: Marga Institute.
Arabs, Moors, and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim Ethnicity in Regional Perspective.
Contributions to Indian Sociology 32(2): 433-483. December 1998.
Tamils and Muslims in the Shadow of War: Schism or Continuity?
South Asia 20: 239-253. Special issue 1997.
The 1987 Stirling Award Essay: Sex, Repression, and Sanskritization in Sri Lanka?
Ethos 16(2): 99-127. June 1988.
Paraiyar Drummers of Sri Lanka: Consensus and Constraint in an Untouchable Caste.
American Ethnologist 10(1): 97-115. February 1983.
Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Mechanics: Eurasian Ethnicity in Sri Lanka.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 24(2): 235-263.
Book Chapters
Rethinking Muslim Identity in Sri Lanka. In John C. Holt, ed., Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka. New York: Oxford University Press 2016: 54-77.
Islamic and Buddhist Impacts on the Shrine at Daftar Jailani, Sri Lanka. In Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher, eds., Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia. London: Routledge 2016: 62-76.
A Matrilineal Shaykh in Sri Lanka. In Neilesh Bose, ed., Culture and Power in South Asian Islam: Defying the Perpetual Exception. New York and London: Routledge 2015. pp. 113-128. (Repr. of McGilvray 2014 from South Asian History and Culture 5(2): 246-261).
Matrilocal Marriage and Women’s Property among the Moors of Sri Lanka. In Robin Jeffrey and Ronojoy Sen, eds., Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life. Delhi: Oxford University Press 2014: 87-115.
Celebrations of Maturity and Marriage. In S.H.M. Jameel and Asiff Hussein, eds., The Muslim Heritage of Eastern Sri Lanka. Colombo: Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum 2011: 33-56.
Dennis B. McGilvray and Mirak Raheem, “Origins of the Sri Lankan Muslims and Varieties of the Muslim Identity.” In John C. Holt, ed., The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press 2011: 410-419.
Michele R. Gamburd and Dennis B. McGilvray, “Introduction.” In Dennis B. McGilvray and Michele R. Gamburd, eds., Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions. London and New York: Routledge 2010: 1-16.
Dennis B. McGilvray and Patricia Lawrence, “Dreaming of Dowry: Post-tsunami Housing Strategies in Eastern Sri Lanka.” In Dennis B. McGilvray and Michele R. Gamburd, eds., Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions. London and New York: Routledge 2010: 106-124.
Dowry in Batticaloa: the Historical Transformation of a Matrilineal Property System in H.L. Seneviratne, ed. The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere. Florence: Società Editrice Fiorentina 2009: 137-159.
The Portuguese Burghers of Eastern Sri Lanka in the Wake of Civil War and Tsunami In: Jorge Flores, ed. Re-exploring the Links: History and Constructed Histories between Portugal and Sri Lanka. Maritime Asia 18. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2007: 325-347 + 3 color plates.
Jailani: A Sufi Shrine in Sri Lanka In: Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld, eds. Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict Delhi: Social Science Press / New York and Oxford: Berghahn 2004: 273-289.
Households in Akkaraipattu: Dowry and Domestic Organization among the Matrilineal Tamils and Moors of Sri Lanka In: John N. Gray and David J. Mearns, eds. Society from the Inside Out: Anthropological Perspectives on the South Asian Household. New Delhi: Sage 1989: 192-235.
Introduction
Dennis B. McGilvray, ed. Caste Ideology and Interaction. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 9.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982: 1-7.
Mukkuvar Vannimai: Tamil Caste and Matriclan Ideology in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
In: Dennis B. McGilvray, ed. Caste Ideology and Interaction. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 9.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982: 34-97.
Sexual Power and Fertility in Sri Lanka: Batticaloa Tamils and Moors
In: Carol P. MacCormack, ed. Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. London: Academic Press 1982: 25-73.
(2nd edition, Waveland Press 1994: 15-63).
Other Publications
Sri Lanka. The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Part 2015-1: 148-152. 2015.
Sri Lankan Sufi Transnational Networks. In Peter Reeves, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora. Singapore:
ISAS and Editions Didier Millet 2013. p. 55.
An Unlikely Tamizhan: Dr. Dennis B. McGilvray Teaches about Tamils at CU Boulder
Malai Chaaral 2: 2-3. May 2009. [Newsletter of the Tamil Association of Colorado]
Muslim Folklore, Sri Lanka
In: Margaret Mills, Peter Claus, and Sara Diamond, eds. South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia.
New York and London: Routledge 2003: 419-423.
Sri Lanka, Tamil
In: Margaret Mills, Peter Claus, and Sara Diamond, eds. South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia.
New York and London: Routledge 2003: 577-578.
A Few Selected Excerpts from My Sri Lanka Fieldwork Diary 1969-1971
Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter 1(2): 6-7. November 1989.
Village Sufism in Sri Lanka: An Ethnographic Report
Lettre d’Information 8: 1-12. January 1988. Programme de recherches interdisciplinaires sur le monde Musulman peripherique, Centre d’etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, EHESS Paris.
Pukkai
In: Jessica Kuper, ed. The Anthropologists’ Cookbook. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1977: 194-197,
New York: Universe Press 1978. Reprinted Routledge 1998.