Charred lullabies
E Valentine Daniel
Charred lullabies : chapters in an anthropography of violence /E Valentine Daniel - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©1996. - xii, 252 pages ;24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history. .
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.
9780691027739
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Social conditions--Ethnic relations
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Charred lullabies : chapters in an anthropography of violence /E Valentine Daniel - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©1996. - xii, 252 pages ;24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history. .
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.
9780691027739
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002
Social Sciences
Social conditions--Ethnic relations
303.6095 DAN
