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

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"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 n...

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Autor principal: Argenti-Pillen, Alex
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women and war.
Sociolinguistics.
Rural women > Language.
Psychic trauma.
Mothers of soldiers.
Ethnic conflict.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Sociolinguistique > Sri Lanka.
Traumatisme psychique > Sri Lanka.
Meres de militaires > Sri Lanka.
Femmes en milieu rural > Sri Lanka > Langage.
Conflits ethniques > Sri Lanka.
Femmes et guerre > Sri Lanka.
Sociolinguistics > Sri Lanka.
Psychic trauma > Sri Lanka.
Mothers of soldiers > Sri Lanka.
Rural women > Sri Lanka > Language.
Ethnic conflict > Sri Lanka.
Women and war > Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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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