Wilce Crying Shame

Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0625-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historicalevidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands ofyears and nearly every continent.
* Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief throughcrying songs, often in a collective ritual context
* Draws on the author's extensive ethnographic fieldwork,and unique long-term engagement and participation in thephenomenon
* Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernityand postmodernity
* An important addition to growing literature on culturalglobalization

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilce, James M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Preface.
1 Introduction.
PART I LOCATING LAMENT AS OBJECT.
Introduction.
2 For Crying Out Loud: What Is Lament Anyway?
3 Lament and Emotion.
4 Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament.
PART II LOSING LAMENT: MODERNITY AS LOSS.
Introduction.
5 Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament inBangladesh.
6 Modern Transformations.
7 How Shame Spreads in Modernity.
8 Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament.
PART III REVIVING LAMENT: LAMENT AS KEY TROPE OFMODERNITY.
Introduction.
9 Mourning Becomes the Electron's Age: LamentingModernity(ies).
10 Lament's (Post)Modern Vertigo: Floating in aDeterritorialized Media Sea.
11 Lament in a Postmodern World of "Revivals".
12 Conclusion.
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

James M. Wilce is Professor of Anthropology at NorthernArizona University. He has published a number of articles and isthe author of Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics ofComplaint in Rural Bangladesh (1998) and Language andEmotion (forthcoming) and the editor of Social and CulturalLives of Immune Systems (2003). Wilce serves on the editorialboard of American Anthropologist and the Journal ofLinguistic Anthropology. He is also the series editor forBlackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture.