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Autore: | Wilce James MacLynn <1953-> |
Titolo: | Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / / James M. Wilce |
Pubblicazione: | Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 306.44 |
393.9 | |
393/.9 | |
Soggetto topico: | Crying |
Laments | |
Mourning customs | |
Weepers (Mourners) | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Crying shame |
ISBN: | 1-282-02632-1 |
9786612026324 | |
1-4443-0624-3 | |
1-4443-0625-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910146102803321 |
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