Dancing the self : personhood and performance in the Pāṇḍav Līlā of Garhwal

著者

• Sax, William Sturman

書誌事項

Dancing the self : personhood and performance in the Pāṇḍav Līlā of Garhwal

William S. Sax

Oxford University Press, 2002

• : hbk
• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-220) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Over a period of ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India. These people are deeply devoted to the great Indian national epic, the Mahabharata. Sax attended and participated in dozens of performances of the pandav lila - a ritual reenactment of scenes from the Mahabharata in dance - and observed in context in village life. He also discovered and documented a bizarre and fascinating cult whose existence was only previously rumoured, which worships and exalts the villains of the epic and reviles the usual heroes. This book not only opens a window on a fascinating (and threatened) aspect of rural Indian life and Hinduism as a living religion, but provides an accessible introduction to the Mahabharata itself, including lively translations of many songs and poems based on the epic, and a prologue containing a concise and readable summary of the entire story.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA57739395
• ISBN:
  • 0195139143
  • 0195139151
• LCCN: 00050183
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 224 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PN2884.5.P36
  • DC21 : 398.2/0954/2
  • NDC9 : 382.258
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Pāṇḍav Līlā
  • LCSH : Self presentation in literature
  • LCSH : Folk drama -- India -- Gārhwal -- History and criticism