Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction 1. Sringeri: Place and Placeness 2. Connectedness and Reciprocity: Historicizing Sringeri Upacara 3. Shastra: Divine Injunction and Earthly Custom 4. "The Shastras Say... ": Idioms of Legitimacy and the "Imagined Text" 5. In the Courtyard of Dharma, Not at the Village Square: Delivering Ashirvada in Sringeri 6. Edifying Lives, Discerning Proprieties: Conversational Stories and Moral Being Ethics, an Imagined Life Notes Bibliography Index
Combining scholarly imagination, ethnographic acumen, and literary flair, Leela Prasad portrays a pilgrimage town and its memorable residents to offer a compelling experience-centered approach to ethics. -- Kirin Narayan, author of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative as Hindu Religious Teaching This is perhaps the only book that moves our attention from the texts of the Dharmashastras to the practice of dharma in the actual lives of Hindu families. Prasad radically revises our concept of Shastra by presenting a dialectical relationship between texts and lives. Her book is beautifully written with deep erudition coupled with genuine understanding. -- Velcheru Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin
Leela Prasad is assistant professor of practical ethics and Indian religions at Duke University. She has edited Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience and coedited Gender and Story in South India. Her book in progress, Annotating Pastimes, is a study of folktale collecting in colonial India.
Her detailed, emphatic, and beautiful ethnography draws the reader into a consideration of issues that textual scholars struggle to "make relevant." -- Donald R. Davis, Jr. Journal of the American Oriental Society
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