No One Cries for the Dead

Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs, and Graveyard Petitions

AvIsabelle Clark-Decès

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-02-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520243149

Utforska kategorier

Kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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).

Recensioner i media

"In this book, isabelle Clark-Deces gives us a clear-eyed view of the bond between the state of untouchability in India, and the pain of death and irretrievable loss. This is not a distanced work: the reader is always right there with the people Clark-Deces writes about; one can see them and hear their voices as one reads. The author also achieves some powerful theoretical insights that go beyond the words and other communicative acts of her informants." - Margaret Trawick, Professor of Social Anthropology, Massey University, New Zealand"

Innehållsförteckning

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