The life of a text: performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas
Lutgendorf, Philip
The life of a text: performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas - Berkeley University of California Press 1991 - xvi, 469p., hb.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520066908/the-life-of-a-text
The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—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 culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture.
520066901
Tulsidas
Ramcaritmanas
Anthropology
891.43 / LUT
The life of a text: performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas - Berkeley University of California Press 1991 - xvi, 469p., hb.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520066908/the-life-of-a-text
The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—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 culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture.
520066901
Tulsidas
Ramcaritmanas
Anthropology
891.43 / LUT