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contention were: there is evidence to show local Tamil attitudes towards LTTE were more 'various, changeable, ambiguous, and situationally nuanced' rather being general loathing and fearful; and LTTE developing its state of exception by itself rather than in dialogue with the Sri Lankan state. Nevertheless, his critique does not discredit the book. Rather, Whitaker calls the book a theoretical achievement in
Anthropology and a powerful ethnography. He recommends everyone interested in Sri Lanka to read the book. Anthropologist Tom Widger praises the book for making several important contributions to studies of the Sri Lanka war and Sri Lankan anthropology and sociology. He calls it 'a remarkable book by a remarkable anthropologist.' He adds,
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959:. Recounting her childhood days, she says that running into bunkers was a regular occurrence since the Sri Lankan army bombing started. She also recounts listening to stories of Indian Army arriving in Sri Lanka and subsequent rumours of rapes. On the evening of 21 September 1989, her mother did not come home,
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First, the book complicates popular portrayal of the war and its victims as simply being composed of two opposing sides–Tamil/LTTE and
Sinhala/government–to show how Tamils were victims not only of government violence but of LTTE violence as well, as was a third and often overlooked community, Sri
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Anthropologist Dennis B. McGilvray notes that the book provides a rare glimpse of Tamil and Muslim 'kinship and marriage bonds under conditions of extreme duress and displacement.' Anthropologist Mark
Whitaker found Thiranagama's argument about LTTE brilliant but incomplete. His two main points of
968:, my grandparents’ house and village where she and we had been born and had lived for most of our lives... My childhood ended. My sister and I left Sri Lanka for London with our father who came to get us, flying on 25 December 1989. On 26 December our new lives as refugees in London began.
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sister and I waited for our mother to come home from work to the temporary house we were renting at the time... My mother never came back home that 21 September; her journey was ended by LTTE assassins in front of the house. Her body returned like us to “our home,” my
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Muslims. In doing so, the book also shows how the LTTE hardly spoke for the Tamil community as a whole, and challenges simplistic relationships between 'individuality' and 'ethnicity', on the one hand, and concepts of 'home' and 'homeland' on the other.
995:. She also did parts of her research in London and Toronto between 2003 and 2006. Since the fieldwork commenced at a time of ceasefire and negotiations between the
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930:University of Jaffna
823:Anthropology by year
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735:Cultural materialism
720:Actor–network theory
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51:Academic background
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