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Absenteeism
Aestheticism
Antithesis
Apathy
Asceticism
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Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact
Brown Sahib
Cataclysm (Dragonlance)
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Civil disobedience
Classicism
Colonialism
Culture and Society
Cunt
Dacoity
Deconstruction
Dissident
Distrust
Eavesdropping
Education
Edward Said
Embarrassment
End of history
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Eric Hobsbawm
Existentialism
Externality
Ezra Pound
Foray
Good and evil
Grandparent
Hinduism
Inception
Incest
Indication (medicine)
Laborer
Metaphorical extension
Metonymy
Mr.
Mrs.
New Historians
On Religion
Oppression
Orientalism
Parsi
Paul Celan
Performative utterance
Persecution
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Postmodernism
Racism
Refugee
Religion
Right to keep and bear arms
Romanticism
Separatism
Special Task Force (India)
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan English
Subaltern (postcolonialism)
Suharto
Superiority (short story)
Tamils
The Discovery of India
The Making of the English Working Class
The Realist
Thiruvalluvar
Torture
Travels (book)
V.
Word and Object
Xenophobia
Product details
- ISBN 9780691027739
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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 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 behavior, 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 he avoid flattening it with theory? The ways in which Daniel grapples with these questions, and their answers, instill this groundbreaking book with a rare sense of passion, purpose, and intellect.
E. Valentine Daniel is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia Universityr. He is the author of Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way.
