TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lutgendorf, Philip 
TI  - The life of a text: : performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas
SN  - 520066901    
U1  - 891.43  
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Berkeley	
PB  - University of California Press	
KW  - Tulsidas	
KW  - Ramcaritmanas 	
KW  - Anthropology
N1  - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520066908/the-life-of-a-text
N2  - 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
ER  -