... This chapter positions the analysis as the team initiated its investigation alongside Mamerto Pizarro's corpse, as relatives sang laments. It juxtaposes Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" and psychoanalytic work on mourning with laments. Psychoanalysis prompts reflection on the alternation...

... in the laments of songs, as a stereotypical yet identifying characteristic of men in Mexican folklore. Paredes debates its source. masculinity gender folklore Texas ...

... for transportation and communication were lamentable. The population was minimal in size and prone to emigration to Argentina, and the towns mostly sleepy. Economic activity was sluggish and limited in scope. The Franciscan missions and the Standard Oil Company exercised more presence in the region than did...

... of the day, Tate laments the dead Black geniuses we lacked the will or the mercy or the mechanisms to save from themselves. Jimi Hendrix John Coltrane Miles Davis Michael Jackson Richard Pryor ...

... the social and biological reproduction of the body politic—have their roots in political and economic crises. The second concerns the radical spatiotemporal possibilities of moral rupture. Rather than lamenting the end of the nation’s survival with interlocutors, the author locates radical potential...

...Ceremony The writing in this section has served as ceremony, ritual, prayer, lament, and invocation. “Shema” came out in a flood of words the day after 9/11. “Dark of the Year” was written in the aftermath of a terrible breakup that was impacted by the eruption of war. “Grave Song...

... documents multispecies ethnography This chapter positions the analysis as the team initiated its investigation alongside Mamerto Pizarro's corpse, as relatives sang laments. It juxtaposes Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" and psychoanalytic work on mourning with laments. Psychoanalysis prompts...