1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783314303321

Autore

Clark-Decès Isabelle <1956-2017.>

Titolo

No one cries for the dead : Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions / / Isabelle Clark-Decès

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-59734-775-2

1-282-35796-4

9786612357961

0-520-93834-8

1-4175-8495-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 242 pages)

Disciplina

393/.9

Soggetti

Funeral rites and ceremonies - India - South Arcot

Tamil (Indic people) - Funeral customs and rites

Dirges - India - South Arcot - History and criticism

Folk songs, Tamil - India - South Arcot - History and criticism

Tamil (Indic people) - Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. A Different Grief -- Chapter Two. Songs Of Experience -- Chapter Three. Why Should We Cry? -- Chapter Four. Life As A Record Of Failure -- Chapter Five. Between Performance And Experience -- Appendix A. A Comparison Of The Four Abridged Versions Of The Virajampuhaâ Story -- Appendix B. The Story Of Virajampuhaâ In Tamil -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums. No One Cries for the Dead offers an original interpretation of these behaviors, which seem almost unrelated to the dead and to the funeral event. Isabelle Clark-Decès demonstrates that rather than mourn the dead, these Tamil funeral songs first and foremost give meaning to the



caste, gender, and personal experiences of the performers.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557394803321

Autore

Di Gregorio Raffaele

Titolo

Kinematics and Robot Design I, KaRD2018

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This volume collects the papers published on the Special Issue "Kinematics and Robot Design I, KaRD2018" ( which is the first issue of the KaRD Special Issue series, hosted by the open access journal "MDPI Robotics". The KaRD series aims at creating an open environment where researchers can present their works and discuss all the topics focused on the many aspects that involve kinematics in the design of robotic/automatic systems. Kinematics is so intimately related to the design of robotic/automatic systems that the admitted topics of the KaRD series practically cover all the subjects normally present in well-established international conferences on "mechanisms and robotics". KaRD2018 received 22 papers and, after the peer-review process, accepted only 14 papers. The accepted papers cover some theoretical and many design/applicative aspects.