03201nam 2200637 a 450 991045451750332120200520144314.01-283-00833-597866130083360-231-51127-2(CKB)1000000000523160(EBL)908549(OCoLC)818856107(SSID)ssj0000223048(PQKBManifestationID)12075241(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223048(PQKBWorkID)10174312(PQKB)11207661(MiAaPQ)EBC908549(Au-PeEL)EBL908549(CaPaEBR)ebr10183594(CaONFJC)MIL300833(EXLCZ)99100000000052316020060601d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPoetics of conduct[electronic resource] oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town /Leela PrasadNew York Columbia University Pressc20071 online resource (309 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-13921-7 0-231-13920-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.Contents; 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; IndexLeela 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 everydNarrative poetry, KannadaMoral and ethical aspectsIndiaSringeriFolk literature, KannadaMoral and ethical aspectsIndiaSringeriHindu ethicsIndiaSringeriSringeri (India)Religious life and customsSringeri (India)Social life and customsElectronic books.Narrative poetry, KannadaMoral and ethical aspectsFolk literature, KannadaMoral and ethical aspectsHindu ethics294.50954/87Prasad Leela987730MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454517503321Poetics of conduct2258277UNINA