Masking Terror How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka Alex Argenti-Pillen "Superbly researched and carefully argued."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute In Sri Lanka, staggering numbers of young men were killed fighting in the armed forces against Tamil separatists. The war became one of attrition--year after year waves of young foot soldiers were sent to almost certain death in a war so bloody that the very names of the most famous battle scenes still fill people with horror. Alex Argenti-Pillen describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a...