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Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
E. Valentine Daniel
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Description for Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
Hardback. How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691027739
SKU
V9780691027739
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About E. Valentine Daniel
E. Valentine Daniel is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia Universityr. He is the author of Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way.
Reviews for Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
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