Performing arts & Ethnicity: Sinhalese and Tamil ethnicity influences the performing arts and the artiste’s practice in Sri Lanka

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Sinhalese and Tamil ethnicity, performing arts, Sinhalese-Tamil political divisions, race, ethnicity, Nationalism, the pre- colonial era, the colonial era, the post-colonial era., Sinhalese-Buddhist and Tamil-Hindu artiste, ethno-religious cohesion

Abstract

This paper describes how far Sinhalese and Tamil ethnicity influences the performing arts and the artiste’s practice. Here a further description will be given about the particular changes that took place regarding ethnicity during the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods and how such changes affected the artiste. Attention is paid to the separate establishment of ethnic groups such as Sinhalese and Tamil across the plantation economy during the British colonial period and how the Sinhalese-Tamil political divisions influenced the artiste and the arts.

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Published

2021-08-09

How to Cite

Sanjeewa, W. (2021). Performing arts & Ethnicity: Sinhalese and Tamil ethnicity influences the performing arts and the artiste’s practice in Sri Lanka. Technium Social Sciences Journal, 22(1), 819–831. Retrieved from https://techniumscience.com/index.php/socialsciences/article/view/3722