About this title: How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in contemporary Sri Lanka. In 1983 Daniel 'walked into the ashes and mortal residue' of the violence that had occurred in his homeland. His planned project - the study of women's folk songs as ethnohistory - was ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780691027746ISBN:0691027749
Description: ISBN: 0691027749 Hardcover, 8vo, xii+255pp, maps, b/w figures, glossary, references, index. Black stripe to bottom edge all else VG no d/w. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIV PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780691027739ISBN:0691027730
Description: New. "Without doubt one of the most important accounts of nationalist violence to be published in recent years...."Charred Lullabies" is a major addition to the growing theoretical and ethnographic literature on contemporary political violence. "--Amit... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691027739ISBN:0691027730
Description: Good. 0691027730 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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