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Crying Shame
Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament
E-Book
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ISBN-13:
9781444306255
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
E-Book
Seiten:
296
Autor:
James M. Wilce
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable E-Book
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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
Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historicalevidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands ofyears and nearly every continent.* Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief throughcrying songs, often in a collective ritual context* Draws on the author's extensive ethnographic fieldworkand unique long-term engagement and participation in thephenomenon* Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernityand postmodernity* An important addition to growing literature on culturalglobalization
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 inBangladesh.6 Modern Transformations.7 How Shame Spreads in Modernity.8 Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament.PART III REVIVING LAMENT: LAMENT AS KEY TROPE OFMODERNITY.Introduction.9 Mourning Becomes the Electron's Age: LamentingModernity(ies).10 Lament's (Post)Modern Vertigo: Floating in aDeterritorialized Media Sea.11 Lament in a Postmodern World of "Revivals".12 Conclusion.Notes.References.Index.