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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Huvudupphovsman: Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppgcq
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