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Charred Lullabies : Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence / E. Valentine Daniel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/HistoryPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 2 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691027739
  • 9781400822034
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6/095493
LOC classification:
  • GN635.S72D36 1996
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION -- Introduction -- ONE. Of Heritage and History -- TWO. History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation -- THREE. Violent Measures, Measured Violence -- FOUR. Mood, Moment, and Mind -- FIVE. Embodied Terror -- SIX. Suffering Nation and Alienation -- SEVEN. Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF FREQUENTLY USED TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION -- Introduction -- ONE. Of Heritage and History -- TWO. History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation -- THREE. Violent Measures, Measured Violence -- FOUR. Mood, Moment, and Mind -- FIVE. Embodied Terror -- SIX. Suffering Nation and Alienation -- SEVEN. Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF FREQUENTLY USED TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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