LEADER 03949nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910305559003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-75306-1 010 $a9786612753060 010 $a1-4008-2203-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822034 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044597 035 $a(EBL)581578 035 $a(OCoLC)700688504 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000120220 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134551 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120220 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080871 035 $a(PQKB)10947687 035 $a(DE-B1597)446148 035 $a(OCoLC)979954262 035 $a(OCoLC)984687868 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581578 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044597 100 $a19960424d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCharred lullabies $echapters in an anthropography of violence /$fE. Valentine Daniel 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (266 pages) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history 311 0 $a0-691-02773-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-239) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tNOTES ON TRANSLITERATION --$tIntroduction --$tONE. Of Heritage and History --$tTWO. History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation --$tTHREE. Violent Measures, Measured Violence --$tFOUR. Mood, Moment, and Mind --$tFIVE. Embodied Terror --$tSIX. Suffering Nation and Alienation --$tSEVEN. Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture --$tNOTES --$tGLOSSARY OF FREQUENTLY USED TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS --$tREFERENCES --$tINDEX 330 $aHow does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in contemporary Sri Lanka. In 1983 Daniel "walked into the ashes and mortal residue" of the violence that had occurred in his homeland. His planned project--the study of women's folk songs as ethnohistory--was immediately displaced by the responsibility that he felt had been given to him, by surviving family members and friends of victims, to recount beyond Sri Lanka what he had seen and heard there. Trained to do fieldwork by staying in one place and educated to look for coherence and meaning in human behavior, what does an anthropologist do when he is forced by circumstances to keep moving, searching for reasons he never finds? How does he write an ethnography (or an anthropography, to use the author's term) without transforming it into a pornography of violence? In avoiding fattening the anthropography into prurience, how does he avoid flattening it with theory? The ways in which Daniel grapples with these questions, and their answers, instill this groundbreaking book with a rare sense of passion, purpose, and intellect. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history. 606 $aEthnology$zSri Lanka$xFieldwork 606 $aEthnology$zSri Lanka$xPhilosophy 606 $aViolence$zSri Lanka 607 $aSri Lanka$xEthnic relations 607 $aSri Lanka$xSocial conditions 607 $aSri Lanka$xPolitics and government$y1978- 615 0$aEthnology$xFieldwork. 615 0$aEthnology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aViolence 676 $a303.6/095493 700 $aDaniel$b E. Valentine$0896920 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910305559003321 996 $aCharred Lullabies$92004135 997 $aUNINA