Poetics of conduct [[electronic resource] ] : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town / / Leela Prasad
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| Autore: |
Prasad Leela
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| Titolo: |
Poetics of conduct [[electronic resource] ] : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town / / Leela Prasad
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 294.50954/87 |
| Soggetto topico: | Narrative poetry, Kannada - Moral and ethical aspects - India - Sringeri |
| Folk literature, Kannada - Moral and ethical aspects - India - Sringeri | |
| Hindu ethics - India - Sringeri | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Sringeri (India) Religious life and customs |
| Sringeri (India) Social life and customs | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Poetics of conduct |
| ISBN: | 1-283-00833-5 |
| 9786613008336 | |
| 0-231-51127-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454517503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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