No One Cries for the Dead
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anthropology
Author_Isabelle Clark-Deces
behavioral analysis
caste system
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ceremonial
cultural analysis
death
death songs
discussion books
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funeral event
funeral singers
funeral songs
funerals
gender issues
graveyard petitions
grief and mourning
historical
indian culture
life and death
nonfiction
performers
personal experiences
rowdy songs
social behaviors
social customs
sociologists
sociology
south india
tamil
tamil dirges
untouchables
village setting
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243149
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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-Deces 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.
Isabelle Clark-Deces is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the author of Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals (2000).
