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"In this book, isabelle Clark-Deces gives us a clear-eyed view of the bond between the state of untouchability in India, and the pain of death and irretrievable loss. This is not a distanced work: the reader is always right there with the people Clark-Deces writes about; one can see them and hear their voices as one reads. The author also achieves some powerful theoretical insights that go beyond the words and other communicative acts of her informants." - Margaret Trawick, Professor of Social Anthropology, Massey University, New Zealand"

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Different Grief 2. Songs of Experience 3. Why Should We Cry? 4. Life as a Record of Failure 5. Between Performance and Experience Appendix A: Four Abridged Versions of the Virajampuhan Story Appendix B: The Story of Virajampuhan in Tamil Glossary References

No One Cries for the Dead Tamil Dirges Rowdy

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/02/2005
      ISBN13: 9780520243149, 978-0520243149
      ISBN10: 0520243145

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      Book Synopsis


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      "In this book, isabelle Clark-Deces gives us a clear-eyed view of the bond between the state of untouchability in India, and the pain of death and irretrievable loss. This is not a distanced work: the reader is always right there with the people Clark-Deces writes about; one can see them and hear their voices as one reads. The author also achieves some powerful theoretical insights that go beyond the words and other communicative acts of her informants." - Margaret Trawick, Professor of Social Anthropology, Massey University, New Zealand"

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Different Grief 2. Songs of Experience 3. Why Should We Cry? 4. Life as a Record of Failure 5. Between Performance and Experience Appendix A: Four Abridged Versions of the Virajampuhan Story Appendix B: The Story of Virajampuhan in Tamil Glossary References

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