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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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppgcq |
Mục lục:
- Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 different grief
- Ch. 2 Songs of experience
- Ch. 3 Why should we cry?
- Ch. 4 Life as a record of failure
- Ch. 5 Between performance and experience
- App. A comparison of the four abridged versions of the Virajampuhan story.