  Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6992-9
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296 pages
December 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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
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