No one cries for the dead : Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions /
At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums. No One Cries for the Dead offers an original interpretation of these behaviors, which seem almost unrelated to the dead and to the funeral event. Isabelle Clark-Dec...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppgcq |
| Summary: | At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums. No One Cries for the Dead offers an original interpretation of these behaviors, which seem almost unrelated to the dead and to the funeral event. Isabelle Clark-Deces demonstrates that rather than mourn the dead, these Tamil funeral songs first and foremost give meaning to the caste, gender, and personal experiences of the performers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520938342 0520938348 1597347752 9781597347754 1417584955 9781417584956 1282357964 9781282357969 9786612357961 6612357967 0520243137 9780520243132 0520243145 9780520243149 |