Enduring Violence Everyday Life and Conflict in Eastern Sri Lanka.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Enduring violence: Everyday life and conflict in eastern Sri Lanka; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series editor's foreword; 1. The beginning of the end; 2. Mapping spaces and lives: Batticaloa and the east; 3. Living and learning in Batticaloa; 4. Between violence and the everyday: questions of the ordinary; 5. Meena's story; 6. 'Kutti annar maram' (my older brother's tree); 7. In light of new beginnings; Bibliography; Index
This book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself.
9781526130754
Tamil (Indic people)--Social conditions. Violence--Sri Lanka--Batticaloa District.