Crying Shame
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Описание:
For millennia, lamenting– expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context – both sustained and challenged communities around the world. Like all artistic processes, it at once defines and transforms humanity’s deepest feelings. In recent centuries, however, communities that once joined together in lament have rejected it, in apparent shame. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, James Wilce analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent, illustrating human commonalities and cultural diversity. In doing so, he offers a new perspective on modernity and postmodernity by demonstrating their fundamental relationship to lament. Intimately researched through participant observation, Crying Shame is a provocative investigation into our capacity to shed tears and to feel shame, the changes that threaten the survival of lament traditions, and lament’s enduring power.Похожие книги
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