Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320 S.)
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
The Ethnography of Political Violence
Parallel Title:
Print version In My Mother's House : Civil War in Sri Lanka
DDC:
305.80095493
Keywords:
Anthropology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Main description: This book examines how ordinary families and communities of minority groups in Sri Lanka have dealt with prolonged civil war and resulting issues as diverse as child recruitment, generational and gender conflicts, political terror, refugee camp life, ethnic nationalism, and migration and mobility.
Abstract:
Biographical note: Sharika Thiranagama teaches anthropology at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Note on Transliteration""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Growing Up at War: Self Formation, Individuality, and the LTTE""; ""2. The House of Secrets: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheritance""; ""3. From Muslims to Northern Muslims: Ethnicity, Eviction, and Displacement""; ""4. Becoming of This Place? Northern Muslim Futures After Eviction""; ""5. The Generation of Militancy: Generation, Gender, and Self-Transformation""; ""6. Conclusions from Tamil Colombo""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""
Description / Table of Contents:
""G""""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Acknowledgments""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.9783/9780812205114
