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Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament /
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 ex...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- For crying out loud : what is lament anyway?
- Lament and emotion
- Antiquity, metaculture, and the control of lament
- Cultural amnesia and the objectification of lament in Bangladesh
- Modern transformations
- How shame spreads in modernity
- Crying backward : primitivist representations of lament
- Mourning becomes the electron's age : lamenting modernity(ies)
- Lament's (post)modern vertigo : floating in a deterritorialized media sea
- Lament in a postmodern world of "revivals"
- Conclusion.