Inhabiting an Embattled Body: The Making of Warrior Masculinities in Sri Lanka de Silva Jani
Inhabiting an Embattled Body: The Making of Warrior Masculinities in Sri Lanka de Silva Jani This book offers an anthropological account of Sri Lanka's Eelam Wars III and IV. The volume approaches…
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Inhabiting an Embattled Body: The Making of Warrior Masculinities in Sri Lanka de Silva Jani
This book offers an anthropological account of Sri Lanka's Eelam Wars III and IV. The volume approaches militarism as a practice of masculinity. It is based on the life-narratives of ex-servicemen who fought on the frontlines.
Thus though they wish to move smoothly into the assault techniques learnt in combat-training, they sometimes find their bodies are acting-out a different trajectory; engaging in acts of spectacular violence or simply running away. It explores the sense of embattlement that young recruits feel, which stems from the inner war between notions of bodily deference instilled in childhood and having to conduct offensives on the battlefield. It traverses themes such as masculinity and Sinhala society, British martial masculinity vs the composed body in Sinhala discourse, combat-training and the battlefield.
The author traces the ways in which troops tried to negotiate
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