No One Cries for the Dead (eBook)

Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs, and Graveyard Petitions

Isabelle Clark-Deces (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2005
252 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93834-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. A Different Grief
2. Songs of Experience
3. Why Should We Cry?
4. Life as a Record of Failure
5. Between Performance and Experience

Appendix A: Four Abridged Versions of the Virajampuhan Story
Appendix B: The Story of Virajampuhan in Tamil
Glossary
References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Behavioral analysis • Caste System • ceremonial • Cultural analysis • Death • death songs • discussion books • funeral event • funerals • funeral singers • Funeral songs • Gender Issues • graveyard petitions • grief and mourning • Historical • Indian Culture • Life and Death • Nonfiction • performers • personal experiences • rowdy songs • social behaviors • Social customs • Sociologists • Sociology • South India • Tamil • tamil dirges • untouchables • village setting
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93834-8 / 0520938348
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93834-2 / 9780520938342