Crying shame
Subtitle: metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament
By: James M. Wilce.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781405169929
Subjects: Mourning customs; Laments; Crying; Weepers (Mourners)
Description: Building on ethnographic fieldwork & extensive historical evidence, James Wilce analyzes lament across thousands of years & nearly every continent, illustrating human commonalities & cultural diversity. In doing so, he offers a new perspective on modernity & postmodernity by demonstrating their fundamental relationship to lament.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: For crying out loud, what is lament anyway?; title: Lament and emotion; title: Antiquity, metaculture, and the control of lament; title: Cultural amnesia and the objectification of lament in Bangladesh; title: Modern transformations; title: How shame spreads in modernity; title: Crying backward : primitivist representations of lament; title: Mourning becomes the electron's age : lamenting modernity(ies); title: Lament's (post)modern vertigo : floating in a deterritorialized media sea; title: Lament in a postmodern world of "revivals"; title: Conclusion.