Poetics of conduct : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town /
Leela Prasad.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
- xv, 291 p. : ill., 24 cm.
Gratis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.
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
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 south western 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 everyday.
0231139217 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006017788
GBA666339 bnb
013522195 Uk
Narrative poetry, Kannada--Moral and ethical aspects--India--Sringeri. Folk literature, Kannada--Moral and ethical aspects--India--Sringeri. Hindu ethics--India--Sringeri.
Sringeri (India)--Religious life and customs. Sringeri (India)--Social life and customs.