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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.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Dirges --- Folk songs, Tamil --- Tamil ballads and songs --- Tamil folk songs --- Funeral hymns --- Laments --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Funeral customs and rites. --- History and criticism. --- Social life and customs. --- anthropology. --- behavioral analysis. --- caste system. --- ceremonial. --- cultural analysis. --- death songs. --- death. --- discussion books. --- funeral event. --- funeral singers. --- funeral songs. --- funerals. --- gender issues. --- graveyard petitions. --- grief and mourning. --- historical. --- indian culture. --- life and death. --- nonfiction. --- performers. --- personal experiences. --- rowdy songs. --- social behaviors. --- social customs. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- south india. --- tamil dirges. --- tamil. --- untouchables. --- village setting.