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Author | : Alex Argenti-Pillen |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-07-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0812201159 |
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In Sri Lanka, staggering numbers of young men were killed fighting in the armed forces against Tamil separatists. The war became one of attrition—year after year waves of young foot soldiers were sent to almost certain death in a war so bloody that the very names of the most famous battle scenes still fill people with horror. Alex Argenti-Pillen describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a breeding ground and reservoir of soldiers for the Sri Lankan nation-state, arguing that this reservoir has been created on the basis of a culture of poverty and terror. Focusing on the involvement of the pseudonymous village of Udahenagama in the atrocities of the civil war of the late 1980s and the interethnic war against the Tamil guerrillas, Masking Terror describes the response of women in the rural slums of southern Sri Lanka to the further spread of violence. To reconstruct the violent backgrounds of these soldiers, she presents the stories of their mothers, sisters, wives, and grandmothers, providing a perspective on the conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil populations not found elsewhere. In addition to interpreting the impact of high levels of violence on a small community, Argenti-Pillen questions the effects of trauma counseling services brought by the international humanitarian community into war-torn non-Western cultural contexts. Her study shows how Euro-American methods for dealing with traumatized survivors poses a threat to the culture-specific methods local women use to contain violence. Masking Terror provides a sobering introduction to the difficulties and methodological problems field researchers, social scientists, human rights activists, and mental health workers face in working with victims and perpetrators of ethnic and political violence and large-scale civil war. The narratives of the women from Udahenagama provide necessary insight into how survivors of wartime atrocities reconstruct their communicative worlds and disrupt the cycle of violence in ways that may be foreign to Euro-American professionals.
Author | : P.J. Night |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481404601 |
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When her dad brings home a mask that looks like the boogeyman that has haunted her dreams, Jasmine resolves to get rid of it, but the mask will not go willingly.
Author | : P. J. Night |
Publisher | : Simon Spotlight |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-09-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781484434826 |
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When her dad brings home a mask that looks like the boogeyman that has haunted her dreams, Jasmine resolves to get rid of it, but the mask will not go willingly.
Author | : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1786834979 |
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Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre’s iconography. This study debates horror cinema’s durability as a site for the potency of the mask’s broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.
Author | : Hugh Desmond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780723700340 |
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Author | : Stan Doyle-Wood |
Publisher | : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Children's literature |
ISBN | : 9780612782587 |
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Author | : Hal PINK |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elizabeth Miles |
Publisher | : Orpheus Books |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781901323146 |
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Author | : Leonard A. Cole |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2007-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0253000017 |
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No country has experienced more acts of terrorism over a prolonged period than Israel. The frequency of attacks has propelled Israel toward innovative methods to address the threat. Indeed, treating so many victims of physical and psychological trauma has given rise to the new field of terror medicine. In a gripping narrative, terrorist expert Leonard A. Cole describes how different segments of Israeli society have coped with terrorism -- survivors of attacks, families of victims, emergency responders, doctors and nurses, and, in the end, the general population. He also interviews Palestinians, including imprisoned handlers of suicide bombers, who endorse or deplore suicide bombings. He concludes that the Israeli experience with preparedness and coping offers valuable lessons for the United States.
Author | : Gary Edson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-07-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1476612331 |
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For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.