{"product_id":"poetics-of-conduct-oral-narrative-and-moral-being-in-a-south-indian-town-paperback-1","title":"Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeela Prasad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical discourse, and shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. Prasad builds on more than a decade of her ethnographic research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India, where for centuries a vibrant local culture has flourished alongside a tradition of monastic authority. Oral narratives and the seeing-and-doing orientations that are part of everyday life compel the question: How do individuals imagine the normative, and negotiate and express it, when normative sources are many and diverging? Moral persuasiveness, Prasad suggests, is intimately tied to the aesthetics of narration, and imagination plays a vital role in shaping how people create, refute, or relate to \"text,\" \"moral authority,\" and \"community.\" Lived understandings of ethics keep notions of text and practice in flux and raise questions about the constitution of \"theory\" itself. Prasad's innovative use of ethnography, poetics, philosophy of language, and narrative and performance studies demonstrates how the moral self, with a capacity for artistic expression, is dynamic and gendered, with a historical presence and a political agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeela Prasad is assistant professor of practical ethics and Indian religions at Duke University. She has edited \u003ci\u003eLive Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience\u003c\/i\u003e and coedited \u003ci\u003eGender and Story in South India\u003c\/i\u003e. Her book in progress, \u003ci\u003eAnnotating Pastimes\u003c\/i\u003e, is a study of folktale collecting in colonial India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 21, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42563577512032,"sku":"9780231139212","price":76.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/NlNyRGN3WUhrbzAyZ2I2UlliNFo4UT09.webp?v=1770407741","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/poetics-of-conduct-oral-narrative-and-moral-being-in-a-south-indian-town-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}