04538nam 2200757Ia 450 991082139200332120200520144314.00-8122-0789-010.9783/9780812207897(CKB)3170000000060348(EBL)3442121(SSID)ssj0000949484(PQKBManifestationID)11529058(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949484(PQKBWorkID)10996412(PQKB)10903815(OCoLC)859160862(MdBmJHUP)muse24669(DE-B1597)449678(OCoLC)1024015481(OCoLC)979724429(DE-B1597)9780812207897(Au-PeEL)EBL3442121(CaPaEBR)ebr10748510(CaONFJC)MIL682507(MiAaPQ)EBC3442121(EXLCZ)99317000000006034820121217d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMaoists at the hearth[electronic resource] everyday life in Nepal's civil war /Judith Pettigrew ; foreword by David N. Gellner1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20131 online resource (200 p.)The ethnography of political violenceDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-51225-6 0-8122-4492-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index.Front matter --Contents --Foreword /Gellner, David N. --Introduction --1. The Village of Kwei Nasa in 1991-92 --2. No Place to Hide --3. Return to Kwei Nasa --4. Maoists in the House --5. "Our Government Is the Maoists" --6. "All We Need Is Peace": The People's Movement and Its Aftermath --7. After Words --Notes --References --Index --AcknowledgmentsThe Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, explores the daily life in a hill village in central Nepal, during the "People's War." From the everyday routines before the arrival of the Maoists in the late 1990's through the insurgency and its aftermath, this book examines the changing social relationships among fellow villagers and parties to the conflict. War is not an interruption that suspends social processes. Life in the village focused as usual on social challenges, interpersonal relationships, and essential duties such as managing agricultural work, running households, and organizing development projects. But as Judith Pettigrew shows, social life, cultural practices, and routine activities are reshaped in uncertain and dangerous circumstances. The book considers how these activities were conducted under dramatically transformed conditions and discusses the challenges (and, sometimes, opportunities) that the villagers confronted. By considering local spatial arrangements and their adaptation, Pettigrew explores people's reactions when they lost control of the personal, public, and sacred spaces of the village. A central consideration of Maoists at the Hearth is an exploration of how local social tensions were realized and renegotiated as people supported (and sometimes betrayed) each other and of how villager-Maoist relationships (and to a lesser extent villager-army relationships), which drew on a range of culturally patterned preexisting relationships, were reforged, transformed, or renegotiated in the context of the conflict and its aftermath.Ethnography of political violence.Political violenceSocial aspectsNepalWar and societyNepalNepalHistoryCivil War, 1996-2006Social aspectsAfrican Studies.Anthropology.Asian Studies.Folklore.Linguistics.Middle Eastern Studies.Political violenceSocial aspectsWar and society954.96Pettigrew Judith1594069Gellner David N985438MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821392003321Maoists at the hearth3914482UNINA