Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels : Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching.
Annotation
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2011.
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Colección: | Contemporary ethnography.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; A Note on Transliteration ; Introduction ; I: Orientations ; 1. There's Always a Reason ; 2. Lives and Stories ; 3. Sādhus; 4. The Listeners ; II: Storytelling Occasions ; 5. Loincloths and Celibacy.
- 6. False Gurus and Gullible Disciples 7. Death and Laughter ; 8. Heaven and Hell ; 9. The Divine Storyteller ; III: Conclusions ; 10. The World of the Stories ; 11. Storytelling as Religious Teaching ; Epilogue ; Appendix I: Glossary of Commonly Used Hindi Terms.
- Appendix II: Map of India Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.