In My Mother's House - Civil War in Sri Lanka

This book examines how ordinary families and communities of minority groups in Sri Lanka have dealt with prolonged civil war and resulting issues as diverse as child recruitment, generational and gender conflicts, political terror, refugee camp life, ethnic nationalism, and migration and mobility.

List of contents

Note on Transliteration

Foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere

Introduction

1. Growing Up at War: Self Formation, Individuality, and the LTTE

2. The House of Secrets: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheritance

3. From Muslims to Northern Muslims: Ethnicity, Eviction, and Displacement

4. Becoming of This Place? Northern Muslim Futures After Eviction

5. The Generation of Militancy: Generation, Gender, and Self-Transformation

6. Conclusions from Tamil Colombo

List of Abbreviations

Notes

References

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Sharika Thiranagama teaches anthropology at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press

Summary

This book examines how ordinary families and communities of minority groups in Sri Lanka have dealt with prolonged civil war and resulting issues as diverse as child recruitment, generational and gender conflicts, political terror, refugee camp life, ethnic nationalism, and migration and mobility.

Product details

• Authors: Sharika Thiranagama, Sharika/ Obeyesekere Thiranagama
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2013
• EAN: 9780812222845
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2284-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series; Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence; Ethnography of Political Viole
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories