Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / James M. Wilce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crying.

Laments.

Mourning customs.

Weepers (Mourners).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 context Draws on the author's extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index.

ISBN:

9786612026324

9781282026322

1282026321

9781444306248

1444306243

9781444306255

1444306251

OCLC:

351551773