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A life of piety: aging and dying in a rural Sinhala Buddhist village (2024)
Journal Article
Udalagama, T. (online). A life of piety: aging and dying in a rural Sinhala Buddhist village. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2024.2370023

This paper explores the relationship between aging, care, and death in a rural village in Sri Lanka from an anthropological perspective. It examines how the Buddhist concept of merit acts as a link between these elements. Through a 14-month ethnograp... Read More about A life of piety: aging and dying in a rural Sinhala Buddhist village.

Blaming the house: women's efforts to preserve marriage in a rural Sinhala village (2024)
Journal Article
Udalagama, T. (2024). Blaming the house: women's efforts to preserve marriage in a rural Sinhala village. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 30(4), 973-989. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14121

In rural Sri Lanka, marital tension, frequently leading to violence, is an increasing problem. This article explores how the house becomes both the source of problems and a possible solution to them. By examining the way that the social, material, an... Read More about Blaming the house: women's efforts to preserve marriage in a rural Sinhala village.

House ablaze: a case study of marital conflict in rural Sri Lanka (2021)
Journal Article
Udalagama, T. (2021). House ablaze: a case study of marital conflict in rural Sri Lanka. Contemporary South Asia, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2021.1995849

Marriage and family are central aspects of life for women in Sri Lanka. The failure to marry or the absence of a family is considered a ‘lack’ in a woman’s life. As a result, we have come to notice how women put up with domestic violence and protect... Read More about House ablaze: a case study of marital conflict in rural Sri Lanka.

Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers (2014)
Journal Article
Simpson, B., Khatri, R., Ravindran, D., & Udalagama, T. (2015). Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers. Social Science & Medicine, 131, 247-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.016

Ethical review by expert committee continues to be the first line of defence when it comes to protecting human subjects recruited into clinical trials. Drawing on a large scale study of biomedical experimentation across South Asia, and specifically o... Read More about Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers.