Jane Derges

Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka's longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity on both sides, until the LTTE were overcome and largely eradicated in 2009. This book provides a contextualised analysis of the effects of war on a small Tamil community living in northern Sri Lanka during the cease-fire period. It examines how the society changed and adapted in order to accommodate the upheaval and destruction of war, and its inevitable resumption.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415690652
• ISBN-10: 041569065X
• Artikelnr.: 33611189

Autorenporträt

Jane Derges currently teaches in the Anthropology Department at University College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Discourses of war 2. Global interactions and
influences 3. 'No war, no peace' Part 2: Transformations 4. Changing social
realities 5. "Frogs in a well": fear and segregation Part 3: The Articulate
Body 6. The (dis)articulation of suffering 7. Mediating adversity 8.
'Embodied knowledge': Endurance and survival Part 4: Conclusions 9.
Resilience against impunity