Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka / Alex Argenti-Pillen.

Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka /

"In 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 sc...

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Main Author: Argenti-Pillen, Alex
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Series:Ethnography of political violence.
Subjects:
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.
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