Masking Terror
ISBN: 9780812201154
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press
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Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Psychic trauma; Mothers of soldiers; Rural women; Ethnic conflict; Women and war;

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.

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