Charred Lullabies : : Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence /

Charred Lullabies : : Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence / / E. Valentine Daniel.

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How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Daniel, E. Valentine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1996]
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION
  • Introduction
  • ONE. Of Heritage and History
  • TWO. History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation
  • THREE. Violent Measures, Measured Violence
  • FOUR. Mood, Moment, and Mind
  • FIVE. Embodied Terror
  • SIX. Suffering Nation and Alienation
  • SEVEN. Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY OF FREQUENTLY USED TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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