Masking terror [[electronic resource] ] : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka / / Alex Argenti-Pillen |
Autore | Argenti-Pillen Alex |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/095493 |
Collana | Ethnography of political violence |
Soggetto topico |
Women and war - Sri Lanka
Ethnic conflict - Sri Lanka Rural women - Sri Lanka - Language Mothers of soldiers - Sri Lanka Psychic trauma - Sri Lanka Sociolinguistics - Sri Lanka |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8122-0115-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note On Transliteration -- 1. Introduction: How Women Contain Violence -- Part I: The Wild In Udahenagama -- 2. "Have Some Tea With A Piece Of Nirvana!": A Lifetime Under The Gaze Of The Wild -- 3. "Even The Wild Spirits Are Afraid!": The Gaze Of The Wild In Five Neighborhoods -- Part II: Cautious Discourses About The Wild -- 4. "We Can Tell Anything To The Milk Tree": Udahenagama Soundscapes -- 5. "Those And These Things Happened": Ambiguous Forms Of Speech -- 6. "She Said That He Had Said That ... ": The Use Of Reported Speech -- Part III: Agents Of Discursive Change -- 7. "It wasn't like that when we were young": Civil War, National Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists -- 8. The Power of Ambiguity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463242403321 |
Argenti-Pillen Alex | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Masking terror [[electronic resource] ] : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka / / Alex Argenti-Pillen |
Autore | Argenti-Pillen Alex |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/095493 |
Collana | Ethnography of political violence |
Soggetto topico |
Women and war - Sri Lanka
Ethnic conflict - Sri Lanka Rural women - Sri Lanka - Language Mothers of soldiers - Sri Lanka Psychic trauma - Sri Lanka Sociolinguistics - Sri Lanka |
Soggetto non controllato |
African Studies
Anthropology Asian Studies Folklore Gender Studies Human Rights Law Linguistics Middle Eastern Studies Political Science Women's Studies |
ISBN | 0-8122-0115-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note On Transliteration -- 1. Introduction: How Women Contain Violence -- Part I: The Wild In Udahenagama -- 2. "Have Some Tea With A Piece Of Nirvana!": A Lifetime Under The Gaze Of The Wild -- 3. "Even The Wild Spirits Are Afraid!": The Gaze Of The Wild In Five Neighborhoods -- Part II: Cautious Discourses About The Wild -- 4. "We Can Tell Anything To The Milk Tree": Udahenagama Soundscapes -- 5. "Those And These Things Happened": Ambiguous Forms Of Speech -- 6. "She Said That He Had Said That ... ": The Use Of Reported Speech -- Part III: Agents Of Discursive Change -- 7. "It wasn't like that when we were young": Civil War, National Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists -- 8. The Power of Ambiguity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787526203321 |
Argenti-Pillen Alex | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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