Masking Terror : : How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka /

Masking Terror : : How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka / / Alex Argenti-Pillen.

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In Sri Lanka, staggering numbers of young men were killed fighting in the armed forces against Tamil separatists. The war became one of attrition-year after year waves of young foot soldiers were sent to almost certain death in a war so bloody that the very names of the most famous battle scenes sti...

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Argenti-Pillen, Alex,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Ethnography of Political Violence
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 16 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List Of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • A Note On Transliteration
  • 1. Introduction: How Women Contain Violence
  • Part I: The Wild In Udahenagama
  • 2. "Have Some Tea With A Piece Of Nirvana!": A Lifetime Under The Gaze Of The Wild
  • 3. "Even The Wild Spirits Are Afraid!": The Gaze Of The Wild In Five Neighborhoods
  • Part II: Cautious Discourses About The Wild
  • 4. "We Can Tell Anything To The Milk Tree": Udahenagama Soundscapes
  • 5. "Those And These Things Happened": Ambiguous Forms Of Speech
  • 6. "She Said That He Had Said That ... ": The Use Of Reported Speech
  • Part III: Agents Of Discursive Change
  • 7. "It wasn't like that when we were young": Civil War, National Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists
  • 8. The Power of Ambiguity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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