Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels by Kirin Narayan
Supplements eight folk narratives with discussion of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes.-
The Taste of Ethnographic Things
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Shelter Blues
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Body and Emotion
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Enterprising Women
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Love and Honor in the Himalayas
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Daughters of Parvati
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The Taste of Blood
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A Merchant's House
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In Chocolate We Trust
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Looking West
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Marriage Without Borders
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Hope Amid Despair
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Confronting Suburban School Resegregation in California
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Atmospheric Violence
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Rituals of Ethnicity
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Negotiating Mistrust
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Living Tangier
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Selective Solidarity
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Waiting at the Mountain Pass
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Learning Capitalist Culture
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Compromised Bodies
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Underground Politics
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Until We're Seen
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Body, Movement, and Culture
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Three Ways to Fail
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Why not Build the Mosque?
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Faith in Flux
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Where Asia Smiles
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Fighting for Dignity
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Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka
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Along an African Border
"This volume is beautifully written, is a delightful read, is theoretically sophisticated, yet presents a rich human portrait of the ethnographer and her informantMost important, we learn a great deal about folktales, Indian gurus, and India." * Anthropology Newsletter *
Kirin Narayan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780812212693 |
| ISBN 10 | 081221269X |
| Title | Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels |
| Author | Kirin Narayan |
| Series | Contemporary Ethnography |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 1989-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |