Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels : : Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching / / Kirin Narayan.
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 s...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 7 illus. |
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