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

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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-Dec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Temas:
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.
Tamouls > Rites et cérémonies funéraires.
Tamouls > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Dirges.
Folk songs, Tamil.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Begrafenissen.
Gebruiken.
Volksliederen (teksten)
Tamils (volk)
India > South Arcot.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 different grief
  • Ch. 2 Songs of experience
  • Ch. 3 Why should we cry?
  • Ch. 4 Life as a record of failure
  • Ch. 5 Between performance and experience
  • App. A comparison of the four abridged versions of the Virajampuhan story.

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