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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prasad, Leela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Narrative poetry, Kannada > Moral and ethical aspects > India > Sringeri.
Folk literature, Kannada > Moral and ethical aspects > India > Sringeri.
Hindu ethics > India > Sringeri.
RELIGION > Hinduism > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Hindu ethics
Manners and customs
Sringeri (India) > Religious life and customs.
Sringeri (India) > Social life and customs.
India > Sringeri
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Sringeri: Place and Placeness; 2. Connectedness and Reciprocity: Historicizing Sringeri Upachara; 3. Shastra: Divine Injunction and Earthly Custom; 4. "The Shastras Say ... ": Idioms of Legitimacy and the "Imagined Text"; 5. In the Courtyard of Dharma, Not at the Village Square: Delivering Ashirvada in Sringeri; 6. Edifying Lives, Discerning Proprieties: Conversational Stories and Moral Being; Ethics, an Imagined Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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