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Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament

By James M. Wilce

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2008
ISBN
1405169923, 9781405169929
LCC
GT3390 .W56 2009
Open Library ID
OL17031292M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2107900 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
286\286
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent.Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual contextDraws on the author’s extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenonOffers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernityAn important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization

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