No one cries for the dead : Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions /

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-Dec...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
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