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Poetics of conduct : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town /
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TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007Description: xv, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0231139217
- 0231139209
- 9780231139205
- 9780231139212
- 0231511272
- 9780231511278
- BL1226.15.S75 P73 2007
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index
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
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