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UNINA9910816356003321 |
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Autore |
Wilce James MacLynn <1953-> |
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Titolo |
Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / / James M. Wilce |
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Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
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9786612026324 |
9781282026322 |
1282026321 |
9781444306248 |
1444306243 |
9781444306255 |
1444306251 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crying |
Laments |
Mourning customs |
Weepers (Mourners) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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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 |
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UNINA9910481123803321 |
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Titolo |
Liber physiognomiae |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Treviso, : Giovanni Rosso, 1483 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. |
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