Lament Links

Film, ìThe Language You Cry Inî

Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings, including lament scenes

Link to "Men, Women, and Lamentation," by Stanley Whittaker (published electronically by McNair Journal)

Why do women predominate in lament performance? "Womenís Music and the Lifecycle," by Jane Bowers.

Excerpt from a Greek lament

Chinese womenís Nu Shu script, sometimes used for purposes related to lament

http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/6/2/153651/7266

http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c473.htm

Shiía lamentation and Taíziyeh:

http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/taziyeh/

http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm?int_show_id=15446

Elegy (Marthiya) on Husayn: Arabic and Persian ñ

Reference to ancient Indian lament

http://femrhet.cla.umn.edu/proposals/e5.htm

http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0174/_P1Z.HTM

Lady sings the Blues:When Women retell the Ramayana http://free.freespeech.org/manushi/108/nabaneeta.html

Theological seminary courses on lament

The Alternative Seminary http://www.theotherside.org/about/alt_seminary.html

Andover-Newton http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:N7M75j9F6hMJ:www.ants.edu/academics/syllabi/fall/fa03_cmwo757.pdf+andover-newton+lament+course&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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