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- catalog abstract ""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"--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b9626964.
- catalog coverage "Sri Lanka Ethnic relations.".
- catalog coverage "Sri Lanka Politics and government 1978-".
- catalog coverage "Sri Lanka Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""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"--Publisher description.".
- catalog description "1. Of Heritage and History -- 2. History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation -- 3. Violent Measures, Measured Violence -- 4. Mood, Moment, and Mind -- 5. Embodied Terror -- 6. Suffering Nation and Alienation -- 7. Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 252 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691027730 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691027749 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Princeton studies in culture/power/history".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Sri Lanka Ethnic relations.".
- catalog spatial "Sri Lanka Politics and government 1978-".
- catalog spatial "Sri Lanka Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Sri Lanka".
- catalog spatial "Sri Lanka.".
- catalog subject "303.6/095493 20".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Fieldwork Sri Lanka.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Sri Lanka Field work.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Sri Lanka Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "GN635.S72 D36 1996".
- catalog subject "Violence Sri Lanka.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Of Heritage and History -- 2. History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation -- 3. Violent Measures, Measured Violence -- 4. Mood, Moment, and Mind -- 5. Embodied Terror -- 6. Suffering Nation and Alienation -- 7. Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture.".
- catalog title "Charred lullabies : chapters in an anthropography of violence / E. Valentine Daniel.".
- catalog type "text".