Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament

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    • Wilce, James MacLynn

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Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament

James M. Wilce

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-252) and index

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内容説明

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 contextDraws on the author s extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenonOffers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernityAn important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization

目次

Acknowledgments. Preface. 1 Introduction. PART I LOCATING LAMENT AS OBJECT. Introduction. 2 For Crying Out Loud: What Is Lament Anyway? 3 Lament and Emotion. 4 Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament. PART II LOSING LAMENT: MODERNITY AS LOSS. Introduction. 5 Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament in Bangladesh. 6 Modern Transformations. 7 How Shame Spreads in Modernity. 8 Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament. PART III REVIVING LAMENT: LAMENT AS KEY TROPE OF MODERNITY. Introduction. 9 Mourning Becomes the Electron s Age: Lamenting Modernity(ies). 10 Lament s (Post)Modern Vertigo: Floating in a Deterritorialized Media Sea. 11 Lament in a Postmodern World of Revivals . 12 Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

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