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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146102803321

Autore

Wilce James MacLynn <1953->

Titolo

Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / / James M. Wilce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-02632-1

9786612026324

1-4443-0624-3

1-4443-0625-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.44

393.9

393/.9

Soggetti

Crying

Laments

Mourning customs

Weepers (Mourners)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Locating Lament as Object; Introduction; 2 For Crying Out Loud: What is Lament Anyway?; 3 Lament and Emotion; 4 Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament; Part II Losing Lament: Modernity as Loss; Introduction; 5 Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament in Bangladesh; 6 Modern Transformations; 7 How Shame Spreads in Modernity; 8 Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament; Part III Reviving Lament: Lament as Key Trope of Modernity; Introduction; 9 Mourning Becomes the Electron's Age: Lamenting Modernity(ies); 10 Lament's (Post)Modern Vertigo: Floating in a Deterritorialized Media Sea; 11 Lament in a Postmodern World of "Revivals"; 12 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly



every continent. Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context Draws on the author's extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization