Poetics of conduct : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town / Leela Prasad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prasad, Leela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative poetry, Kannada--Moral and ethical aspects--India--Sringeri.

Narrative poetry, Kannada.

Folk literature, Kannada--Moral and ethical aspects--India--Sringeri.

Folk literature, Kannada.

Hindu ethics--India--Sringeri.

Hindu ethics.

Sringeri (India)--Religious life and customs.

Sringeri (India).

Sringeri (India)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.

ISBN:

9786613008336

9781283008334

1283008335

9780231511278

0231511272

OCLC:

818856107