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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Auteur principal: Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppgcq
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