…med or rejected, there can be no doubt that its emergence marked the birth of a community's identity - inespective ofwhere and when this house type first appeared - and that this cultural identity was to a large extent reflected in the conservatíve architectura1 elements of the L…

…' s West Coast, 1500-1800 125 Harald Tambs-Lyche 5. The Constitution of Islamic Community in Sri Lanka: Sufi Networks, Saints' Shrines and Ritual Practice 147 Llyn Smith 6. Dialectics of Autochthony and Foreignness The external boundary and coastline oflndia as depicted in the in…

…nd in one book on general Mopan ethnography (Thomson 1930), one dissertation on community development (McCaffrey 1967), one on ethnic boundaries (Gregory 1972), a thesis on political leadership (Howard 1973), and a smattering of publications on village politics and ethnohistory (…