Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament
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Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-252) and index
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Description
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
Table of Contents
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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