University of Pennsylvania Press 1989 Trade paperback New Supplements eight folk narratives with discussion of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494. 1989. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

ISBN10: 081221269X, ISBN13: 9780812212693, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Softcover Supplements eight folk narratives with discussion of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494. . 1989. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 081221269X, ISBN13: 9780812212693, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania] Softcover Paperback. Swamiji, a Hindu holy man, is the central character of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels. He reclines in a deck chair in his modern apartment in western India, telling subtle and entertaining folk narratives to his assorted gatherings. Among the listeners is Kirin Narayan, who knew Swamiji when she was a child in India and who has returned from America as an anthropologist. In her book Narayan builds on Swamiji's tales and his audiences' interpretations to ask why religious teachings the world over are so often couched in stories.For centuries, religious teachers from many traditions have used stories to instruct their followers. When Swamiji tells a story, the local barber rocks in helpless laughter, and a sari-wearing French nurse looks on enrapt. Farmers make decisions based on the tales, and American psychotherapists take notes that link the storytelling to their own practices. Narayan herself is a key character in this ethnography. As both a local woman and a foreign academic, she is somewhere between participant and observer, reacting to the nuances of fieldwork with a sensitivity that only such a position can bring.Each story s reproduced in its evocative performance setting. Narayan supplements eight folk narratives with discussions of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes. All these stories ...

ISBN10: 081221269X, ISBN13: 9780812212693, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Softcover pp. 304
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 081221269X, ISBN13: 9780812212693, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. 1989-08-01, Philadelphia] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]