Download or read book No One Cries for the Dead written by Isabelle Clark-Decès and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-Decès 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.