LEADER 03093nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910146102803321 005 20230927214104.0 010 $a1-282-02632-1 010 $a9786612026324 010 $a1-4443-0624-3 010 $a1-4443-0625-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724609 035 $a(EBL)437555 035 $a(OCoLC)351551773 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000133127 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132082 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133127 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045066 035 $a(PQKB)10922720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC437555 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL437555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10300838 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL202632 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724609 100 $a20080729d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCrying shame $emetaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament /$fJames M. Wilce 210 1$aMalden, Mass. ;$aOxford :$cWiley-Blackwell,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a1-4051-6992-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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 330 $aBuilding 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 606 $aCrying 606 $aLaments 606 $aMourning customs 606 $aWeepers (Mourners) 615 0$aCrying. 615 0$aLaments. 615 0$aMourning customs. 615 0$aWeepers (Mourners) 676 $a306.44 676 $a393.9 676 $a393/.9 700 $aWilce$b James MacLynn$f1953-$0862249 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910146102803321 996 $aCrying shame$92190308 997 $aUNINA