Title: Crying shame
Subtitle: metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Weepers (Mourners), Mourning customs, Crying, Laments
LC classification: GT3390 .W56  2009