Outputs (3)

In my mother’s house: civil war in Sri Lanka (2014)
Journal Article
house: civil war in Sri Lanka. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(4), 164-165

Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic (2014)
Book
Widger, T. (2015). Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315743707

Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and... Read More about Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic.

Reading Sri Lanka's suicide rate (2014)
Journal Article
Widger, T. (2014). Reading Sri Lanka's suicide rate. Modern Asian Studies, 48(03), 791-825. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x1200073x

By the final decade of the twentieth century, rates of suicide in Sri Lanka ranked among the highest in the world. However, in 1996 the suicide rate began to fall and was soon at its lowest level in almost 30 years. This decline poses problems for cl... Read More about Reading Sri Lanka's suicide rate.