LEADER 03167nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910782047603321 005 20230207225537.0 010 $a1-283-00833-5 010 $a9786613008336 010 $a0-231-51127-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000523160 035 $a(EBL)908549 035 $a(OCoLC)818856107 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223048 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12075241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223048 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10174312 035 $a(PQKB)11207661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908549 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908549 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183594 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300833 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000523160 100 $a20060601d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoetics of conduct$b[electronic resource] $eoral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town /$fLeela Prasad 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13921-7 311 $a0-231-13920-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aLeela 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 606 $aNarrative poetry, Kannada$xMoral and ethical aspects$zIndia$zSringeri 606 $aFolk literature, Kannada$xMoral and ethical aspects$zIndia$zSringeri 606 $aHindu ethics$zIndia$zSringeri 607 $aSringeri (India)$xReligious life and customs 607 $aSringeri (India)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aNarrative poetry, Kannada$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aFolk literature, Kannada$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aHindu ethics 676 $a294.50954/87 700 $aPrasad$b Leela$0987730 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782047603321 996 $aPoetics of conduct$93802405 997 $aUNINA