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Masking terror : how women contain violence in Southern Sri Lanka / Alex Argenti-Pillen.
LIBRA HQ1735.8 .A85 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pillen, Alex.
- Series:
- Ethnography of political violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and war--Sri Lanka.
- Women and war.
- Ethnic conflict--Sri Lanka.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Psychic trauma.
- Mothers of soldiers.
- Rural women.
- Sri Lanka.
- Rural women--Sri Lanka--Language.
- Mothers of soldiers--Sri Lanka.
- Psychic trauma--Sri Lanka.
- Sociolinguistics--Sri Lanka.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a reservoir of soldiers for the Sri Lankan nation in the brutal war against Tamil separatists.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812236882
- OCLC:
- 50348080
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