# Daniel Bass

**Source**: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/daniel-bass
**Parent**: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/adjunct-affiliated-postdocs

## Adjunct Assistant Professor

### Overview

Administrative Manager & Fellowship Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Asian Studies

**Geographic Research Areas:** Sri Lanka, India, and South Asian diasporas

**Research Interests:** Ethnicity, citizenship, tea plantations, diaspora, religion, and popular culture

### Publications

[Up-country Tamils: Charting a New Future in Sri Lanka](http://ices.lk/publications/up-country-tamils-charting-a-new-future-in-sri-lanka-edited-by-daniel-bass-and-b-skanthakumar/)Co- edited with B. Skanthakumar. International Centre for Ethnic Studies. (2020).

[*Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War*](http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/sri-lanka/), co-edited with Amarnath Amarasingam. London: Hurst & New York: Oxford University Press (2016).

“Incomplete Integration: Local Government, Citizenship and Tamil Identity in the Up-country.” In [*Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War*](http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/sri-lanka/), Amarnath Amarasingam & Daniel Bass, eds. London: Hurst (2016).

“Introduction.” co-written with Amarnath Amarasingam In [*Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War*](http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/sri-lanka/), Amarnath Amarasingam & Daniel Bass, eds. London: Hurst (2016).

[*Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-country Tamil Identity Politics*](http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415526241/). Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series No. 61. London: Routledge (2012) & Colombo: Social Scientists Association (2015; [paperback edition](http://www.routledge.com/Everyday-Ethnicity-in-Sri-Lanka-Up-country-Tamil-Identity-Politics/Bass/p/book/9781138086531)).

“Making Sense of the Census: Up-country Tamils and the Contours of Tamil Nationalism” In [*Pathways of Dissent: Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka*](https://sk.sagepub.com/books/pathways-of-dissent), R. Cheran, ed., p. 139-151. New Delhi: Sage (2009).

“[Paper Tigers on the Prowl: Rumors, Violence and Agency in the Up-country of Sri Lanka](http://www.jstor.org/stable/30052746).” *Anthropological Quarterly* 81 (1): 269-296 (2008).

*Landscapes of Malaiyaha Tamil Identity*. Marga Monograph Series on Ethnic Reconciliation No. 8. Colombo: Marga Institute, 22 pp (2001).

[Malaiyaha (Up-Country) Identity and Politics in the Twenty-first Century](http://ices.lk/publications/malaiyaha-up-country-tamil-identity-and-politics-in-the-twenty-first-century/). ICES Lecture/ Discussion Series No. 2. Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 16 pp (2000).

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