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Charred lullabies : chapters in an anthropography of violence /E Valentine Daniel

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002Series: Princeton studies in culture/power/historyPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©1996.Description: xii, 252 pages ;24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691027739
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.6095 DAN
Contents:
AcknowledgmentsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction31Of Heritage and History132History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation433Violent Measures, Measured Violence724Mood, Moment, and Mind1045Embodied Terror1356Suffering Nation and Alienation1547Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture194Notes213Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations229References231Index241
Summary: 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.
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AcknowledgmentsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction31Of Heritage and History132History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation433Violent Measures, Measured Violence724Mood, Moment, and Mind1045Embodied Terror1356Suffering Nation and Alienation1547Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture194Notes213Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations229References231Index241

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.

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