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The Life of a Text - Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (Hardcover)
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The Life of a Text - Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (Hardcover)
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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. The most
popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the
epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana
story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi
literature has always reached its largely illiterate audiences
primarily through oral performance including ceremonial recitation,
folksinging, oral exegesis, and theatrical representation. Drawing
on fieldwork in Banaras, Lutgendorf breaks new ground by capturing
the range of performance techniques in vivid detail and tracing the
impact of the epic in its contemporary cultural context.
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