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Contents
- Preface & Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Supplementary Materials
- Part One: Finding Musical Gifts
- Introduction: For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation
- Chapter One: Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies
- Part Two: Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction
- Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts
- Chapter Two: Berava Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts
- Chapter Three: Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction
- Chapter Four: The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money
- Part Three: The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving
- Chapter Five: Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War
- Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six Languages
- Checkpoint: Sound as Commodity (Identity) versus Sound as Gift (Identity + Relations)
- Chapter Six: The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas
- Part Four: Rediscovering Musical Giving
- Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures
- Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka
- References