Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka Derges Jane
Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka Derges Jane Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka's longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace…
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Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka Derges Jane
Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka's longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It examines how the society changed and adapted in order to accommodate the upheaval and destruction of war, and its inevitable resumption. However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity on both sides, until the LTTE were overcome and largely eradicated in 2009.This book provides a contextualised analysis of the effects of war on a small Tamil community living in northern Sri Lanka during the cease-fire period.
In particular, it focuses on the nature of suffering through an exploration of a well-known ritual: Thuukkukkaavadi that transformed the experience of pain and suffering and contributed to a process whereby many village