Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka
Alex Argenti-Pillen
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Description for Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka
Hardback. 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. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JH; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 239 x 27. Weight in Grams: 564.
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.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
The Ethnography of Political Violence Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812236880
SKU
V9780812236880
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About Alex Argenti-Pillen
Alex Argenti-Pillen is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London.
Reviews for Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka
"Superbly researched and carefully argued."
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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