The life of a text : performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas /
Offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text--the epic Rāmcaritmānas--and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the cultu...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
1991.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppzkw |
Table of Contents:
- A Note on Transliteration
- The Text and the Research Context
- The Text in Recitation and Song
- The Text Expounded: The Development of Mānas-Kathā
- The Art of Mānas-Kathā
- Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted
- The Text in a Changing Society
- Glossary of Names with Transliteration.