The Resource Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka, Alex Argenti-Pillen
Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka, Alex Argenti-Pillen
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The item Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka, Alex Argenti-Pillen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
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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 scenes still fill people with horror. Alex Argent-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 inter-ethnic 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."
- "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."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780812201154
- Label
- Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka
- Title
- Masking terror
- Title remainder
- how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka
- Statement of responsibility
- Alex Argenti-Pillen
- Subject
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- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Ethnic conflict
- Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka
- Femmes en milieu rural -- Sri Lanka -- Langage
- Femmes et guerre -- Sri Lanka
- Mothers of soldiers
- Mothers of soldiers -- Sri Lanka
- Mères de militaires -- Sri Lanka
- Psychic trauma
- Psychic trauma -- Sri Lanka
- Rural women -- Language
- Rural women -- Sri Lanka -- Language
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | General
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics -- Sri Lanka
- Sociolinguistique -- Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka
- Traumatisme psychique -- Sri Lanka
- Women and war
- Women and war -- Sri Lanka
- Conflits ethniques -- Sri Lanka
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "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 Argent-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 inter-ethnic 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."
- "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."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Argenti-Pillen, Alex
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Ethnography of political violence
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women and war
- Ethnic conflict
- Rural women
- Mothers of soldiers
- Psychic trauma
- Sociolinguistics
- Femmes et guerre
- Conflits ethniques
- Femmes en milieu rural
- Mères de militaires
- Traumatisme psychique
- Sociolinguistique
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Ethnic conflict
- Mothers of soldiers
- Psychic trauma
- Rural women
- Sociolinguistics
- Women and war
- Sri Lanka
- Label
- Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka, Alex Argenti-Pillen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn859160990
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780812201154
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt3bb81z
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)859160990
- Label
- Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka, Alex Argenti-Pillen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn859160990
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780812201154
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt3bb81z
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)859160990
Subject
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Ethnic conflict
- Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka
- Femmes en milieu rural -- Sri Lanka -- Langage
- Femmes et guerre -- Sri Lanka
- Mothers of soldiers
- Mothers of soldiers -- Sri Lanka
- Mères de militaires -- Sri Lanka
- Psychic trauma
- Psychic trauma -- Sri Lanka
- Rural women -- Language
- Rural women -- Sri Lanka -- Language
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | General
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics -- Sri Lanka
- Sociolinguistique -- Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka
- Traumatisme psychique -- Sri Lanka
- Women and war
- Women and war -- Sri Lanka
- Conflits ethniques -- Sri Lanka
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