No One Cries for the Dead
Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs, and Graveyard Petitions
Seiten
2005
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-24314-9 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-24314-9 (ISBN)
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-Deces 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.
Isabelle Clark-Deces is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the author of Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals (2000).
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Different Grief 2. Songs of Experience 3. Why Should We Cry? 4. Life as a Record of Failure 5. Between Performance and Experience Appendix A: Four Abridged Versions of the Virajampuhan Story Appendix B: The Story of Virajampuhan in Tamil Glossary References
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.2.2005 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-24314-5 / 0520243145 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-24314-9 / 9780520243149 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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