Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka /
"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 sc...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2003
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| Series: | Ethnography of political violence.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: how women contain violence
- "Have some tea with a piece of Nirvana!": a lifetime under the gaze of the wild
- "Even the wild spirits are afraid!": the gaze of the wild in five neighborhoods
- "We can tell anything to the milk tree": ambiguous forms of speech
- "Those and these things happened": ambiguous forms of speech
- "She said that he had said that ... ": the use of reported speech
- "It wasn't like that when we were young": civil war, National Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists
- The power of ambiguity.
