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Poetics of conduct : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town /
Leela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical discourse, and shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. Prasad builds on more than a dec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Leela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical discourse, and shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. Prasad builds on more than a decade of her ethnographic research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India, where for centuries a vibrant local culture has flourished alongside a tradition of monastic authority. Oral narratives and the seeing-and-doing orientations that are part of everyd. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231511272 9780231511278 1283008335 9781283008334 9786613008336 6613008338 |