Wilce, James M.
Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament
Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent.
Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context
Draws on the author’s extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon
Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity
An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization
- Author(s)
- Wilce, James M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 296 pages
- Category
- Geography, Travel
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444306255