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| 100 | 1 | _aPrasad, Leela. | |
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_aPoetics of conduct : _boral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town / _cLeela Prasad. |
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_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _cc2007. |
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_axv, 291 p. : _bill., _c24 cm. |
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| 500 | _aGratis. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index. | ||
| 505 | _aAcknowledgments; 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 | ||
| 520 | _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 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. | ||
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_aNarrative poetry, Kannada _xMoral and ethical aspects _zIndia _zSringeri. |
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_aFolk literature, Kannada _xMoral and ethical aspects _zIndia _zSringeri. |
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_aHindu ethics _zIndia _zSringeri. |
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_aSringeri (India) _xReligious life and customs. |
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_aSringeri (India) _xSocial life and customs. |
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_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017788.html |
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