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Storytellers, saints, and scoundrels : folk narrative in Hindu religious teaching / Kirin Narayan.
LIBRA BL1215.S85 N37 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Narayan, Kirin.
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography series
- University of Pennsylvania Press contemporary ethnography series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Storytelling--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Storytelling.
- Asceticism--Hinduism.
- Asceticism.
- Hindus--Folklore--History and criticism.
- Hindus.
- Tales--India--History and criticism.
- Tales.
- Folklore.
- India.
- Hinduism--Customs and practices.
- Hinduism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- Supplements eight folk narratives with discussion of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 267-282.
- ISBN:
- 0812281195
- 081221269X
- OCLC:
- 19458243
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