The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas

by Philip Lutgendorf

The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text--the epic Ramcaritmanas --and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520066901
• ISBN13: 9780520066908
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"