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How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions.

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Without doubt one of the most important accounts of nationalist violence to be published in recent years... Charred Lullabies is a major addition to the growing theoretical and ethnographic literature on contemporary political violence. tav Ghosh

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AcknowledgmentsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction31Of Heritage and History132History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation433Violent Measures, Measured Violence724Mood, Moment, and Mind1045Embodied Terror1356Suffering Nation and Alienation1547Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture194Notes213Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations229References231Index241

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691027739, 978-0691027739
      ISBN10: 0691027730
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions.

      Trade Review
      Without doubt one of the most important accounts of nationalist violence to be published in recent years... Charred Lullabies is a major addition to the growing theoretical and ethnographic literature on contemporary political violence. tav Ghosh

      Table of Contents
      AcknowledgmentsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction31Of Heritage and History132History's Entailments in the Violence of a Nation433Violent Measures, Measured Violence724Mood, Moment, and Mind1045Embodied Terror1356Suffering Nation and Alienation1547Crushed Glass: A Counterpoint to Culture194Notes213Glossary of Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations229References231Index241

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