Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka
(Part of the The Ethnography of Political Violence Series)
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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 Argenti-Pillen describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a breeding ground and reservoir of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812236882
ISBN13:9780812236880
Release Date:December 2002
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.27 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"
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