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University of California Press The Life of a Text: Ramcaritmanas Performance & Culture

Name: The Life of a Text: Ramcaritmanas Performance & Culture
Brand: University of California Press
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The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with the epic Ramcaritmanas and how performances of this influential work function as a flexible medium for cultural expression. This beautifully illustrated examination explores the most popular text of Hindi-speaking North India through the lens of performance arts and cultural anthropology. Ideal for anthropologists, historians of religion, and anyone interested in North Indian culture, this University of California Press publication combines careful scholarship with engaging presentation to reveal how the Ramcaritmanas continues to evolve as a vehicle for community identity and artistic interpretation across generations.

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The Ramcaritmanas is examined as a living text through performance traditions in North India, revealing how communities continuously reinterpret this epic work.

This University of California Press publication combines anthropological research with historical and religious perspectives on Hindi cultural expression.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book offers visual insights into performance practices and artistic traditions surrounding the Ramcaritmanas.

The study demonstrates how performances of this epic text function as a flexible medium that adapts to contemporary cultural needs and community values.

Readers gain comprehensive understanding of the Ramcaritmanas' role as the most influential work in Hindi-speaking North India's cultural landscape.

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Brand: University of California Press
Colour: Black
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0520066901
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 23 July 1991
Listed Since: 16 December 2006

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