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



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Autore: Clark-Decès Isabelle <1956-2017.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: No one cries for the dead : Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions / / Isabelle Clark-Decès Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2005
©2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages)
Disciplina: 393/.9
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: anthropology
behavioral analysis
caste system
ceremonial
cultural analysis
death songs
death
discussion books
funeral event
funeral singers
funeral songs
funerals
gender issues
graveyard petitions
grief and mourning
historical
indian culture
life and death
nonfiction
performers
personal experiences
rowdy songs
social behaviors
social customs
sociologists
sociology
south india
tamil dirges
tamil
untouchables
village setting
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.
Titolo autorizzato: No one cries for the dead  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59734-775-2
1-282-35796-4
9786612357961
0-520-93834-8
1-4175-8495-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783314303321
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