Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka /

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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 sc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Argenti-Pillen, Alex
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Colección:Ethnography of political violence.
Temas:
Women and war > Sri Lanka.
Ethnic conflict > Sri Lanka.
Rural women > Sri Lanka > Language.
Mothers of soldiers > Sri Lanka.
Psychic trauma > Sri Lanka.
Sociolinguistics > Sri Lanka.
Femmes et guerre > Sri Lanka.
Conflits ethniques > Sri Lanka.
Femmes en milieu rural > Sri Lanka > Langage.
Mères de militaires > Sri Lanka.
Traumatisme psychique > Sri Lanka.
Sociolinguistique > Sri Lanka.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Ethnic conflict
Mothers of soldiers
Psychic trauma
Rural women > Language
Sociolinguistics
Women and war
Sri Lanka
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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