Image: A coconut fibre mill in western Sri Lanka
Published
Books
2015. Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic, London: Routledge
2012. Ethnographies of suicide: Anthropological approaches to understanding self-harm and self-inflected death, Special issue of Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 36(2) (edited with James Staples)
Articles & book chapters
In press. Learning suicide and the limits of agency: children's 'suicide play' in Sri Lanka, In: Muenster, D. & L. Broz (eds.) Suicide and agency: anthropological perspectives on self-destruction, personhood and power, Ashgate.
2016. Philanthronationalism: junctures at the business-charity nexus in post-war Sri Lanka, Development and Change, 47(1).
2015. Charity, philanthropy and development in Colombo, In: B. Morvaridi (ed.) New Philanthropy and Social Justice, Bristol: Policy Press (with F. Osella & R.L. Stirrat).
2015. ‘Suicidology as a Social Practice': A Reply. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 3 (2015): 1-4. Read here.
2015. Suicide and the 'poison complex': toxic relationalities, child development, and the Sri Lankan self-harm epidemic, Medical Anthropology 34(5).
2014. Reading Sri Lanka's suicide rate, Modern Asian Studies 48(3): 791-825.
2012. Suffering, frustration and anger: gender, class and history in Sri Lankan suicide stories, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(2): 225-244.
2012. Situating suicide as an anthropological problem: ethnographic approaches to understanding self-harm and self-inflicted death, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(2): 183-203 (with James Staples).
2012. Suicide and the morality of kinship in Sri Lanka, Contributions to Indian Sociology 46(1&2): 83-116.
Reviews
2015. In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalising South India by Jocelyn Chua. Centre for Medical Humanities. Read here
2014. Thiranagama, Sharika. In my mother's house: civil war in Sri Lanka. xvi, 296 pp., map, bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2011.£ 39.00 (cloth). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(1), 164-165.
2011. Dance and the nation: performance, ritual, and politics in Sri Lanka–By Susan A. Reed. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17(2), 416-417.
2009. Buddha in Sri Lanka: remembered yesterdays–By Swarna Wickremeratne. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15(4), 887-888.
2015. Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic, London: Routledge
2012. Ethnographies of suicide: Anthropological approaches to understanding self-harm and self-inflected death, Special issue of Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 36(2) (edited with James Staples)
Articles & book chapters
In press. Learning suicide and the limits of agency: children's 'suicide play' in Sri Lanka, In: Muenster, D. & L. Broz (eds.) Suicide and agency: anthropological perspectives on self-destruction, personhood and power, Ashgate.
2016. Philanthronationalism: junctures at the business-charity nexus in post-war Sri Lanka, Development and Change, 47(1).
2015. Charity, philanthropy and development in Colombo, In: B. Morvaridi (ed.) New Philanthropy and Social Justice, Bristol: Policy Press (with F. Osella & R.L. Stirrat).
2015. ‘Suicidology as a Social Practice': A Reply. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 3 (2015): 1-4. Read here.
2015. Suicide and the 'poison complex': toxic relationalities, child development, and the Sri Lankan self-harm epidemic, Medical Anthropology 34(5).
2014. Reading Sri Lanka's suicide rate, Modern Asian Studies 48(3): 791-825.
2012. Suffering, frustration and anger: gender, class and history in Sri Lankan suicide stories, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(2): 225-244.
2012. Situating suicide as an anthropological problem: ethnographic approaches to understanding self-harm and self-inflicted death, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(2): 183-203 (with James Staples).
2012. Suicide and the morality of kinship in Sri Lanka, Contributions to Indian Sociology 46(1&2): 83-116.
Reviews
2015. In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalising South India by Jocelyn Chua. Centre for Medical Humanities. Read here
2014. Thiranagama, Sharika. In my mother's house: civil war in Sri Lanka. xvi, 296 pp., map, bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2011.£ 39.00 (cloth). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(1), 164-165.
2011. Dance and the nation: performance, ritual, and politics in Sri Lanka–By Susan A. Reed. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17(2), 416-417.
2009. Buddha in Sri Lanka: remembered yesterdays–By Swarna Wickremeratne. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15(4), 887-888.
Presentations
Aug. 2013. Charity, philanthropy and development. 17th World Congress of the IUAES, 5th-10th August 2013, Manchester, UK. Panel web page
April. 2012. Colonial encounters with 'suicidal others': the British in Ceylon. The Aesthetics of Suicide. Association of Social Anthropologists, 3rd-6th April 2012, New Dehli, India. Panel web page
Nov. 2011. Pharmaceuticals, depression, and Sinhala Buddhism: ‘preparedness’ for anti-depressants in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada
Nov. 2011. Situating suicide as a problem of the body. Sensible Flesh Seminars, King's College, London
Nov. 2011. Organic Suicide, Contagious Suicide, and Suicide Agency in Sri Lanka. Suicide and Agency Workshop, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Oct. 2011. Cousins in love: genealogy, genes and gender amongst Sinhala Buddhist youth. 40th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, USA
June 2011. Medicalisation/demedicalisation of mental health services in Sri Lanka and the UK. Medical Anthropology Young Scholars, University of Warsaw
Jan. 2011. Suffering suicide, frustration suicide, and anger suicide: folk and state stories of suicidal behaviour in Sri Lanka. Departmental Theory Seminar, Brunel University
Jul. 2008. What’s self-harm got to do with suicide? Questions from Sri Lanka and the ethnographic record. Ethnographies of Suicide Conference, Brunel University
© Tom Widger 2010
