Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / / James M. Wilce
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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.: | 9910816356003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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