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CHARRED LULLABIES By E. Valentine Daniel **Mint Condition**
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- Condition
- Like New
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- ISBN-10
- 0691027730
- Book Title
- Charred Lullabies
- Genre
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- ISBN
- 9780691027739
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691027730
ISBN-13
9780691027739
eBay Product ID (ePID)
280128
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Charred Lullabies : Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
Subject
Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Violence in Society, Anthropology / General, World / Asian
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
96-020275
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
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.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
303.6/095493
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration Introduction 3 1 Of Heritage and History 13 2 History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation 43 3 Violent Measures, Measured Violence 72 4 Mood, Moment, and Mind 104 5 Embodied Terror 135 6 Suffering Nation and Alienation 154 7 Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture 194 Notes 213 Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations 229 References 231 Index 241
Synopsis
How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions., 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 immediately displaced by the responsibility that he felt had been given to him, by surviving family members and friends of victims, to recount beyond Sri Lanka what he had seen and heard there. Trained to do fieldwork by staying in one place and educated to look for coherence and meaning in human behavior, what does an anthropologist do when he is forced by circumstances to keep moving, searching for reasons he never finds? How does he write an ethnography (or an anthropography, to use the author's term) without transforming it into a pornography of violence? In avoiding fattening the anthropography into prurience, how does he avoid flattening it with theory? The ways in which Daniel grapples with these questions, and their answers, instill this groundbreaking book with a rare sense of passion, purpose, and intellect., 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 immediately displaced by the responsibility that he felt had been given to him, by surviving family members and friends of victims, to recount beyond Sri Lanka what he had seen and heard there. Trained to do fieldwork by staying in one place and educated to look for coherence and meaning in human behavior, what does an anthropologist do when he is forced by circumstances to keep moving, searching for reasons he never finds? How does he write an ethnography (or an anthropography, to use the author's term) without transforming it into a pornography of violence?In avoiding fattening the anthropography into prurience, how does he avoid flattening it with theory?The ways in which Daniel grapples with these questions, and their answers, instill this groundbreaking book with a rare sense of passion, purpose, and intellect.
LC Classification Number
GN635.S72D36 1996
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