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...
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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 Introduction -- For crying out loud : what is lament anyway? -- Lament and emotion -- Antiquity, metaculture, and the control of lament -- Cultural amnesia and the objectification of lament in Bangladesh -- Modern transformations -- How shame spreads in modernity -- Crying backward : primitivist representations of lament -- Mourning becomes the electron's age : lamenting modernity(ies) -- Lament's (post)modern vertigo : floating in a deterritorialized media sea -- Lament in a postmodern world of "revivals" -- Conclusion.
