Title No one cries for the dead : Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions / Isabelle Clark-Decès

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) Contents Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 different grief -- Ch. 2 Songs of experience -- Ch. 3 Why should we cry? -- Ch. 4 Life as a record of failure -- Ch. 5 Between performance and experience -- App. A comparison of the four abridged versions of the Virajampuhan story Summary 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 Analysis anthropology behavioral analysis caste system ceremonial cultural analysis death songs death discussion books funeral event funeral singers funeral songs funerals 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 dirges tamil untouchables village setting Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India -- South Arcot Tamil (Indic people) -- Funeral customs and rites Dirges -- India -- South Arcot -- History and criticism Folk songs, Tamil -- India -- South Arcot -- History and criticism Tamil (Indic people) -- Social life and customs SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Dirges Folk songs, Tamil Funeral rites and ceremonies Tamil (Indic people) -- Social life and customs Begrafenissen. Gebruiken. Volksliederen (teksten) Tamils (volk) India -- South Arcot Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520938342 0520938348 1597347752 9781597347754 1417584955 9781417584956 1282357964 9781282357969 9786612357961 6612357967

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