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BL
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1006684
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b761054
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| Main Entry
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Prasad, Leela.
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| Title & Author
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Poetics of conduct : : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town /\ Leela Prasad.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0231511272
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0231139209
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0231139217
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9780231139205
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9780231139212
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Folk literature, Kannada-- Moral and ethical aspects-- India-- Sringeri.
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Hindu ethics-- India-- Sringeri.
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Narrative poetry, Kannada-- Moral and ethical aspects-- India-- Sringeri.
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Hindu ethics.
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Manners and customs.
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RELIGION-- Hinduism-- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.
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Sringeri (India), Religious life and customs.
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Sringeri (India), Social life and customs.
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India, Sringeri.
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| Dewey Classification
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294.50954/87
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| LC Classification
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BL1226.15.S75P73 2007eb
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18.65bcl
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