Caste in a Tamil Family: On Purity and Pollution in Post-war Jaffna

Written using the voice of Zehra Hashmi, an ethnographic narrative examines caste in transition in Jaffna, centred around a Veḷḷāḷar family that lived in the peninsula throughout the duration of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which came to an end in May 2009. Based on field research and interviews conduc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economic and political weekly 2017-05, Vol.52 (21), p.15-18
Hauptverfasser: HASHMI, ZEHRA, KUGANATHAN, PRASHANTH
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Written using the voice of Zehra Hashmi, an ethnographic narrative examines caste in transition in Jaffna, centred around a Veḷḷāḷar family that lived in the peninsula throughout the duration of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which came to an end in May 2009. Based on field research and interviews conducted between 2011 and 2013, the authors find that interlocutors struggle to make meaning of post-war changes.
ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846