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Masking Terror

How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka

Szerző: Alexandra Argenti-Pillen

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Masking Terror How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka Alex Argenti-Pillen "Superbly resear...

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Szerző

Alexandra Argenti-Pillen

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2002

oldal

256

EAN

9780812236880

ISBN

0812236882

Enbook ID

04723855

Kiadó

University of Pennsylvania Press

Súly

564

Méretek

239 x 163 x 27

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Masking Terror How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka Alex Argenti-Pillen "Superbly researched and carefully argued."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 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 still fill people with horror. Alex Argenti-Pillen describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a breeding ground and reservoir of soldiers for the Sri Lankan nation-state, arguing that this reservoir has been created on the basis of a culture of poverty and terror. Focusing on the involvement of the pseudonymous village of Udahenagama in the atrocities of the civil war of the late 1980s and the interethnic war against the Tamil guerrillas, Masking Terror describes the response of women in the rural slums of southern Sri Lanka to the further spread of violence. To reconstruct the violent backgrounds of these soldiers, she presents the stories of their mothers, sisters, wives, and grandmothers, providing a perspective on the conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil populations not found elsewhere. In addition to interpreting the impact of high levels of violence on a small community, Argenti-Pillen questions the effects of trauma counseling services brought by the international humanitarian community into war-torn non-Western cultural contexts. Her study shows how Euro-American methods for dealing with traumatized survivors poses a threat to the culture-specific methods local women use to contain violence. Masking Terror provides a sobering introduction to the difficulties and methodological problems field researchers, social scientists, human rights activists, and mental health workers face in working with victims and perpetrators of ethnic and political violence and large-scale civil war. The narratives of the women from Udahenagama provide necessary insight into how survivors of wartime atrocities reconstruct their communicative worlds and disrupt the cycle of violence in ways that may be foreign to Euro-American professionals. Alex Argenti-Pillen is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. The Ethnography of Political Violence 2002 | 256 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 16 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3688-0 | Cloth | $69.95s | GBP45.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0115-4 | Ebook | $69.95s | GBP45.50 World Rights | Anthropology, Political Science, Women's/Gender Studies, Asian Studies Short copy: 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.