No One Cries for the Dead - Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs, and Graveyard Pertitions

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-520-24314-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

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-Decès 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark-Deces, Isabelle

Clark-Decès, Isabelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. A Different Grief
2. Songs of Experience

3. Why Should We Cry?
4. Life as a Record of Failure
5. Between Performance and Experience

Appendix A: Four Abridged Versions of the Virajampuhan Story
Appendix B: The Story of Virajampuhan in Tamil

Glossary

References

Über Autor(innen)

Isabelle Clark-Decès is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the author of Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals (2000).