{"title":"E. Valentine Daniel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE. Valentine Daniel\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of cultural narratives and social memory through a lens that intertwines anthropology with poignant storytelling. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eCharred Lullabies\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers to reflect on history, trauma, and the power of collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the Education \u0026amp; Reference category, Daniel’s books provide insightful perspectives that challenge and enrich understanding of diverse human experiences. They are essential reading for those interested in the intersection of culture, history, and memory studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"charred-lullabies-by-e-valentine-daniel-9780691027739","title":"Charred Lullabies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in contemporary Sri Lanka. In 1983, Daniel \"walked into the ashes and mortal residue\" of the violence that had occurred in his homeland. His planned project—the study of women's folk songs as ethnohistory—was immediately displaced by the responsibility that he felt had been given to him, by surviving family members and friends of victims, to recount beyond Sri Lanka what he had seen and heard there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTrained to do fieldwork by staying in one place and educated to look for coherence and meaning in human behaviour, what does an anthropologist do when he is forced by circumstances to keep moving, searching for reasons he never finds? How does he write an ethnography (or an anthropography, to use the author's term) without transforming it into a pornography of violence? In avoiding fattening the anthropography into prurience, how does he avoid flattening it with theory?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ways in which Daniel grapples with these questions, and their answers, instil this groundbreaking book with a rare sense of passion, purpose, and intellect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595997692140,"sku":"9780691027739","price":107.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/aa5af53b2a6edb93c770396d71d6c49c.jpg?v=1777932517"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/e-valentine-daniel.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}