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.>
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| Titolo: |
No one cries for the dead : Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions / / Isabelle Clark-Decès
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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