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Item Criticizing and Dissenting via Humorous and Satirical Folktale; A Review of Andare’s Folktale Cycle(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Ihalagama, S.Folktales are oral narratives that grow out of the lives and imaginations of the people, or folk. They are a form of traditional literature which initiated as an attempt to explain and understand the natural and spiritual world. Though folktales are often anonymous, they have been expanded and shaped by storytellers over time, and are passed down orally from one generation to the next. In the context of Sri Lanka, most Sinhalese folktales can be cited as tale cycles that are woven around a popular legendary character such asAndare, Mahadenamuththa, and KingKekille. However, there is no clear evidence to verify them as real characters that lived in a certain time period. One of the most popular legendary characters is Andare and tales that revolve round him are humorous andsatiricaltales that present many examples of outrageous human folly. Andare isknown as the Court Jester in the times of Sinhala kings, similar to characters in folklore in other Asian countries. He not only acted as a court jester but was also a mentor and a poet. Andare assisted the king to be relieved and relaxed from day to day work, permitting the king to reduce his troubles by listening to the lighter side of life through comic stories. Therefore, this character is important as a comedian not only for his comic stories buthe also helped others to rethink their role in society. The objective of this paper is to identify the importance of humorous and satirical folktales as a traditional medium in sociopolitical criticism and dissention by analysing the folktale cycle ofAndare.Item Educational background of the child abuse convicts in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2024) Subasinghe, W.; Ihalagama, S.Child abuse is one of the most violent incidents in Sri Lanka. There are nearly 10000 reported child abuse cases in 2023. There is a new trend of criminal offences against persons related to child abuse in Sri Lanka. The study was focused on exploring the child abuse perpetrators’ social background and education access in childhood. Research Problem was ‘what is the social background to get less education of child abuse perpetrators’. research question was, ‘is there a relationship between less education opportunities and committing child abuses in Sri Lanka?’. research objective was to explore the relationship between opportunities for education and committing child abuse among convicts. The research adopted an ontological approach to subjectivism and an epistemological approach of interpretivism. It was descriptive, cross-sectional, and qualitative. The study was underpinned in cognitive theory introduced by Charles Goring focused on the differences on addressing education towards crime. Ten convicted persons have been interviewed. Thematic analysis was used for the analysis. Child abuse can happen with one's own child abuse, close relatives' child abuse, neighbor child abuse, and stranger child abuse. Several risk factor characteristics of child abuse perpetrators could be identified. It could be summarized as perpetrators’ childhood experience, social interrelationships, less opportunities and encouragements to get education, less economic background, and lack of awareness about the child abuse law in the community, etc. Family background was important in determining the risk of becoming a child abuser and was intertwined with economic factors and issues related to sexual behaviour. Poor childcare and parent care relationships, frustration, socioeconomic conditions, and alcoholism are other main factors behind this behaviour. Most of them grew up not with their mothers but with close relatives such as grandparents, aunts, etc. Most of these people had only attended school up to a maximum grade eight. Many of them cannot read and write, they had associated with older people, not peers at their school age, they had been addicted to use illicit alcohol and to watch nude pictures. There were also people who had developed sexual relationships with girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age and brought them to their homes. But they didn't know or had ignored that one day they would be punished by the law. Most of the abusers had done wage labor as their occupation in paddy work and other unskilled works. Many of these abusers had failed in marriages with divorces or separations. The social background of abused children was also in an unsafe condition. 13 years of school education access must be compulsory and government attention should be enhanced to mitigate the issueItem Social and symbolic roles of Sri Lankan traditional food culture(Culture, Globalization and the Developing World, 2nd ICSS, 2013) Ihalagama, S.Food culture of any society should not be analyzed for the sole purpose of describing diet and nutrition because it is inherently social. As Radcliffe-Brown (1922) states food is a means of regulating the social system. It not only involves what is consumed but includes the labor and technology applied for production, preparation and preservation of food etc. Moreover, "variation in what people eat reflects substantive variation in status and power and characterizes societies that are internally stratified into rich and poor, sick and healthy, developed and underdeveloped, overfed and undernourished "( Ross 1987). Thus, food culture can be analysed in many aspects like economic, political, social, religious, health etc. Among such aspects, social aspect is prominent in studying various social relations of food systems within and among societies. This study is to examine social and symbolic roles of Sri Lankan traditional food culture with social aspect. Sri Lanka has a unique food culture with a long history proved by many evidences in literary and archeological sources as well as folklore sources. Methods and techniques of production, processing, cooking, protection, preservation and consumption practiced in traditional Sri Lankan society are taken into consideration in this study. As the methodology secondary information are used collected from relevant literary, folklore and archeological sources. The findings show that social and symbolic roles of Sri Lankan traditional food culture reflects a real picture of ancient society and provide many lessons that can be adopted for many food related issues in modern society.Item කාන්තාවන් කේන්ද්රීය ජන ක්රීඩාවන්හි සමාජ හා මානව විද්යාත්මක වටිනාකම ( කාන්තාවන්ට ආවේණික සිංහල ජනක්රීඩා කිහිපයක් ආශ්රයෙන් සිදු කෙරෙන විමර්ශනයකි)(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Ihalagama, S.Item සිංහල කවිකාර මඩුව හා වන්නම්.(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2008) Ihalagama, S.