03093nam 2200637Ia 450 991014610280332120230927214104.01-282-02632-197866120263241-4443-0624-31-4443-0625-1(CKB)1000000000724609(EBL)437555(OCoLC)351551773(SSID)ssj0000133127(PQKBManifestationID)11132082(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133127(PQKBWorkID)10045066(PQKB)10922720(MiAaPQ)EBC437555(Au-PeEL)EBL437555(CaPaEBR)ebr10300838(CaONFJC)MIL202632(EXLCZ)99100000000072460920080729d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCrying shame metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament /James M. WilceMalden, Mass. ;Oxford :Wiley-Blackwell,2009.1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) illustrations1-4051-6992-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index.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; IndexBuilding 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 globalizationCryingLamentsMourning customsWeepers (Mourners)Crying.Laments.Mourning customs.Weepers (Mourners)306.44393.9393/.9Wilce James MacLynn1953-862249MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910146102803321Crying shame2190308UNINA