By Jane Derges
Following over 20 years of battle, Sri Lanka’s longest cease-fire (2002-2006) supplied a last chance for an inclusive peace payment among the Sri Lankan govt and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). besides the fact that, hostilities resumed with ever expanding desperation and ferocity on either side, until eventually the LTTE have been triumph over and principally eliminated in 2009.
This e-book offers a contextualised research of the consequences of battle on a small Tamil group residing in northern Sri Lanka throughout the cease-fire interval. It examines how the society replaced and tailored with the intention to accommodate the upheaval and destruction of warfare, and its inevitable resumption. specifically, it makes a speciality of the character of agony via an exploration of a widely known ritual: Thuukkukkaavadi that remodeled the event of soreness and soreness and contributed to a procedure wherein many village groups may possibly come jointly in an indication of energy and resilience.
It contributes to stories on violence, reparation procedures of so-called ‘post-conflict’ societies and the clinical anthropology of therapeutic. It questions assumptions about the nature of affliction and reviews the applying of western different types in settings like northern Sri Lanka, the place complete groups were silenced by way of political violence. The ebook accordingly provides a declare for extra culturally particular understandings of what constitutes discomfort and is of curiosity to scholars and students of South Asian stories, clash solution, and Social and Cultural Anthropology.
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