 | Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka Subjects: Women and war -- Sri Lanka; Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka; Rural women -- Sri Lanka -- Language; Mothers of soldiers -- Sri Lanka; Psychic trauma -- Sri Lanka; Sociolinguistics -- Sri Lanka; 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. Alex Argenti-Pillen is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. |
