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CRYING SHAME
METACULTURE, MODERNITY, AND THE EXAGGERATED DEATH OF LAMENT |
| By: |
James M. Wilce |
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Hardback |
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£76.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1405169923 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781405169929 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
7 November, 2008 |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Description: |
For millennia, lamenting ? expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context ? both sustained and challenged communities around the world. In recent centuries, however, communities that once joined together in lament have rejected it, in apparent shame. |
| Synopsis: |
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 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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