- Hardcover: 252 pages
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; illustrated edition edition (December 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0691027749
- ISBN-13: 978-0691027746
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 16.5 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
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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. tav Ghosh
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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 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 behaviour, 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 h
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This book discusses the anthropological and sociological aspects of nationalistic violence. The book is perfect for studying conflict.
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