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Dear all,
Please find attached details of my book, which some of you may find useful.
Thanks!
All the best 
Mihirini 


The Making and Meaning of Relationships in Sri Lanka: An Ethnography on University Students in Colombo
Mihirini Sirisena 
Series: Culture, Mind, and Society
Explores how university students navigate uncertainty and search for meaning in their daily lives
Investigates how university students in Colombo navigate sex and sexuality
Is based on thorough ethnographic interviews with local respondents
This book proposes that romantic relationships—filtered through various socio-cultural sieves— can lead to the development of affective kin bonds, which underlie our sense of personhood and belonging. Sirisena argues that the process resembles an attempt to make strangers into kin, and that sort of affective relating is a form of self-conscious relationality, in which the inhabitants reflect on their individual and collective needs, as well as their expectations and dreams in the future of their relationships. University students’ romantic relationships, which they gloss as 'serious,' appear to be processual and non-linear, and are considered to be
stabilising forces which are pitched against the inherent uncertainty in young people’s lives.

Available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-76336-1 <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-76336-1> 


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