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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Lutgendorf, Philip
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press 1991.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppzkw
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.