Alex Argenti-Pillen

Masking Terror

How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

Describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a reservoir of soldiers for the Sri Lankan nation in the brutal war against Tamil separatists.

Produktdetails

• The Ethnography of Political Violence
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780812236880
• ISBN-10: 0812236882
• Artikelnr.: 20989819

Autorenporträt

Alex Argenti-Pillen

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1: How Women Contain Violence: Introduction
PART I: THE WILD IN UDAHENAGAMA
Chapter 2 "Have some tea with a peace of Nirvana!": A Lifetime Under the
Gaze of the Wild
Chapter 3 "Even the wild spirits are afraid": The Gaze of the Wild in Five
Neighborhoods
PART II: CAUTIOUS DISCOURSES ABOUT THE WILD
Chapter 4 "We can tell anything to the milk tree": Udahenagama Soundscapes
Chapter 5 "Those and these things happened": Ambiguous Forms of Speech
Chapter 6 "She said that he had said that": The Use of Reported Speech
PART III: AGENTS OF DISCOURSE Discursive Change
Chapter 7 "It wasn't like that when we were young": Civil War, National
Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists
Chapter 8 The Power of Ambiguity: Concluding Discussion
Notes
Bibliography
Index