Performed Weeping: Drama and Emotional Management in Women's Wailing

Gamliel, Tova

doi:10.1162/dram.2010.54.2.70

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“…The contribution of my research is possible only because the wailers became my 'intellectual partners'. As is proper in cultural-performance analysis (Bauman and Briggs 1990, 61), I discuss the theoretical contribution of these findings from the perspective of the emotion-management and drama-analysis approach elsewhere (Gamliel 2010b).…”

Section: Discussion: the Methodological And Ethical Value Of Co-direcmentioning

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Visualising traditional performance: ‘co-directed observation’ as an ethnographic tool

Gamliel¹

2011

Visual Studies

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Visualising traditional performance: 'co-directed observation' as an ethnographic tool TOVA GAMLIEL'Co-directed observation' is a methodology in photography in which a cultural performer is interviewed while co-directing his/her performance for the camera. This method, discovered in research on ritual wailing of Yemenite-Jewish women in Israel in 2001-2005, tackles the fact of the decline of this cultural phenomenon, its stereotyped social images and, above all, the character of the women performers who identify with and are immensely knowledgeable about it. Co-directed observation (CDO) makes its main contribution by adding a dynamic dimension to the documentation in a way that applies the photo-voice orientation in visual anthropology. CDO proves to be an especially effective ethnographic tool for the collection of data in situations where performers find it difficult to explain their performative knowledge. This article describes the CDO method as discovered in and applied to the research topic -characteristics of the Yemenite-Jewish wailing culture -and reports the specific findings that this method elicited. It also discusses main characteristics and advantages of the method.

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Visualising traditional performance: ‘co-directed observation’ as an ethnographic tool

Gamliel¹

2011

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“…Finally, if we study morality, emotion management, and the life course, we would be remiss not to include investigations concerning the final stages of life: at death. As Tova Gamliel (, 71) eloquently states, “Death is an emotional event that abounds with ritual.” Through their performances, the women wailers she studied managed mourning audience members' emotions by easing them into a mood where they could openly cry, lament, and pay their respects to the deceased in morally appropriate ways. While wailers primarily manage the emotions of others, it is plausible that these women also engage in emotion management themselves (or feel pressured to do so) to avoid being seen as inauthentic or disrespectful.…”

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Emotion Management: Unexpected Research Opportunities

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During the process of emotion management, individuals perceive that they are feeling emotions that differ from what is expected within the situation. Consequently, they use cognitive, physical, and/or other means either to display more appropriate emotions or to change their emotions on a deeper level to be consistent with what is customarily expressed. Beginning with the first examinations of emotion management in 1979 by the pioneer Arlie Hochschild, emotion scholars have produced over 6,000 studies of this phenomenon. We join this vibrant research program by proposing new avenues of research using an interdisciplinary strategy. First, we explore possibilities for emotion management research within its “home base” of sociology; then, we branch out to the areas of morality and political science. In so doing, we craft new and unexpected pathways for advancements in theory, theory adjudication, and methodology, for the future of emotion management research.

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“…I include Yemenite-Jewish wailing in his conclusions because the young Yemenite Jews in my research perceive it as a practice of uninhibited public emotional display and because it is a 'performed weeping' (Gamliel 2010b). His insights, some based on his ethnographic experiencing of lament in Islamic Bangladesh, detect what he calls 'technologies of forgetting' (ibid.…”

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‘Here's your dinner, Jews’: Yemenite-Jewish lamentation in Israel as a commemoration of shame

Gamliel

2013

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A covert reason for the decline of ritual wailing among Yemenite-Jewish women in Israel is the community's memory of its stay in Yemen as a period of 'exile' manifested in dhimmi status. According to respondents' oral history, Jewish lamentation was exploited by members of the majority Muslim population to compel Jewsmostly mento wail in honor of Muslim dead. The article makes its main contribution by revealing this historical episode and analyzing the standing of women's lamentation in the context of religiopolitical tension. The respondents' narrative reveals that although the wailers mitigated the humiliating effects of this spectacle, the appropriation of their community custom impaired Jewish men's gender status and ability to perform religious differentiation. This, coupled with changes caused by their relocation to Israel, has made women's lament the commemoration of a practice that evokes shame among members of this community, abetting its decline in the past decade.

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Performed Weeping: Drama and Emotional Management in Women's Wailing

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Visualising traditional performance: ‘co-directed observation’ as an ethnographic tool

Visualising traditional performance: ‘co-directed observation’ as an ethnographic tool

Emotion Management: Unexpected Research Opportunities

‘Here's your dinner, Jews’: Yemenite-Jewish lamentation in Israel as a commemoration of shame

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