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Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Ser.: Charred Lullabies : Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence by E. Valentine Daniel (1996, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691027730

ISBN-139780691027739

eBay Product ID (ePID)280128

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCharred Lullabies : Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence

SubjectSociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Violence in Society, Anthropology / General, World / Asian

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

AuthorE. Valentine Daniel

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

SeriesPrinceton Studies in Culture/Power/History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN96-020275

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsWithout doubt one of the most important accounts of nationalist violence to be published in recent years. . . . Charred Lullabies is a major addition to the growing theoretical and ethnographic literature on contemporary political violence.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal303.6/095493

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Notes on Transliteration Introduction 3 1 Of Heritage and History 13 2 History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation 43 3 Violent Measures, Measured Violence 72 4 Mood, Moment, and Mind 104 5 Embodied Terror 135 6 Suffering Nation and Alienation 154 7 Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture 194 Notes 213 Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations 229 References 231 Index 241

SynopsisHow 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., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberGN635.S72D36 1996