Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town
Awards:   Winner of Best First Book in the History of Religions 2008 Winner of Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion 2007 Winner of Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion 2008
Author:   Leela Prasad
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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9780231139212


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   21 November 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town


Awards

  • Winner of Best First Book in the History of Religions 2008
  • Winner of Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion 2007
  • Winner of Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion 2008

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Author:   Leela Prasad
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780231139212


ISBN 10:   0231139217
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   21 November 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction 1. Sringeri: Place and Placeness 2. Connectedness and Reciprocity: Historicizing Sringeri Upacara 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

Reviews

Her detailed, emphatic, and beautiful ethnography draws the reader into a consideration of issues that textual scholars struggle to make relevant. -- Donald R. Davis, Jr., Journal of the American Oriental Society


Her detailed, emphatic, and beautiful ethnography draws the reader into a consideration of issues that textual scholars struggle to make relevant. -- Donald R. Davis, Jr. * Journal of the American Oriental Society *


Her detailed, emphatic, and beautiful ethnography draws the reader into a consideration of issues that textual scholars struggle to make relevant. -- Donald R. Davis, Jr. Journal of the American Oriental Society


Her detailed, emphatic, and beautiful ethnography draws the reader into a consideration of issues that textual scholars struggle to make relevant. -- Donald R. Davis, Jr. Journal of the American Oriental Society vol 28, no4, 2008


"Her detailed, emphatic, and beautiful ethnography draws the reader into a consideration of issues that textual scholars struggle to ""make relevant."" -- Donald R. Davis, Jr. Journal of the American Oriental Society"


Author Information

Leela Prasad is assistant professor of practical ethics and Indian religions at Duke University. She has edited Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience and coedited Gender and Story in South India. Her book in progress, Annotating Pastimes, is a study of folktale collecting in colonial India.

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