Masking Terror : How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration -- 1 Introduction: How Women Contain Violence -- Part I: The Wild in Udahenagama -- 2 "Have some tea with a piece of Nirvana!": A Lifetime Under the Gaze of the Wild -- 3 "Even the wild spirits are afraid!": The Gaze of the Wild in Five Neighborhoods -- Part II: Cautious Discourses About the Wild -- 4 "We can tell anything to the milk tree": Udahenagama Soundscapes -- 5 "Those and these things happened": Ambiguous Forms of Speech -- 6 "She said that he had said that ...": The Use of Reported Speech -- Part III: Agents of Discursive Change -- 7 "It wasn't like that when we were young": Civil War, National Mental Health NGOs, and the International Community of Trauma Specialists -- 8 The Power of Ambiguity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a reservoir of soldiers for the Sri Lankan nation in the brutal war against Tamil separatists.

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