LEADER 05100nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910826784203321 005 20240813013356.0 010 $a0-8122-0115-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201154 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418290 035 $a(EBL)3442169 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036020 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11556508 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036020 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11033947 035 $a(PQKB)11711364 035 $a(OCoLC)859160990 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26811 035 $a(DE-B1597)448969 035 $a(OCoLC)979741098 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201154 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442169 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748595 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442169 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418290 100 $a20020801d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMasking terror $ehow women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka /$fAlex Argenti-Pillen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 0 $aEthnography of political violence 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-3688-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList Of Illustrations --$tPreface --$tA Note On Transliteration --$t1. Introduction: How Women Contain Violence --$tPart I: The Wild In Udahenagama --$t2. "Have Some Tea With A Piece Of Nirvana!": A Lifetime Under The Gaze Of The Wild --$t3. "Even The Wild Spirits Are Afraid!": The Gaze Of The Wild In Five Neighborhoods --$tPart II: Cautious Discourses About The Wild --$t4. "We Can Tell Anything To The Milk Tree": Udahenagama Soundscapes --$t5. "Those And These Things Happened": Ambiguous Forms Of Speech --$t6. "She Said That He Had Said That ... ": The Use Of Reported Speech --$tPart III: Agents Of Discursive Change --$t7. "It wasn't like that when we were young": Civil War, National Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists --$t8. The Power of Ambiguity --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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 soldiers for the Sri Lankan nation-state, arguing that this reservoir has been created on the basis of a culture of poverty and terror. Focusing on the involvement of the pseudonymous village of Udahenagama in the atrocities of the civil war of the late 1980's and the interethnic war against the Tamil guerrillas, Masking Terror describes the response of women in the rural slums of southern Sri Lanka to the further spread of violence. To reconstruct the violent backgrounds of these soldiers, she presents the stories of their mothers, sisters, wives, and grandmothers, providing a perspective on the conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil populations not found elsewhere. In addition to interpreting the impact of high levels of violence on a small community, Argenti-Pillen questions the effects of trauma counseling services brought by the international humanitarian community into war-torn non-Western cultural contexts. Her study shows how Euro-American methods for dealing with traumatized survivors poses a threat to the culture-specific methods local women use to contain violence. Masking Terror provides a sobering introduction to the difficulties and methodological problems field researchers, social scientists, human rights activists, and mental health workers face in working with victims and perpetrators of ethnic and political violence and large-scale civil war. The narratives of the women from Udahenagama provide necessary insight into how survivors of wartime atrocities reconstruct their communicative worlds and disrupt the cycle of violence in ways that may be foreign to Euro-American professionals. 410 0$aEthnography of Political Violence 606 $aWomen and war$zSri Lanka 606 $aEthnic conflict$zSri Lanka 606 $aRural women$zSri Lanka$xLanguage 606 $aMothers of soldiers$zSri Lanka 606 $aPsychic trauma$zSri Lanka 606 $aSociolinguistics$zSri Lanka 615 0$aWomen and war 615 0$aEthnic conflict 615 0$aRural women$xLanguage. 615 0$aMothers of soldiers 615 0$aPsychic trauma 615 0$aSociolinguistics 676 $a303.6/095493 700 $aPillen$b Alex$01764504 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826784203321 996 $aMasking terror$94205264 997 $aUNINA