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Parables in rabbinical literature --- Parables --- Storytelling --- Religious aspects --- Jesus Christ --- Parables
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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 she was a child in India and who has returned from America as an anthropologist. In her book Narayan builds on Swamiji's tales and his audiences' interpretations to ask why religious teachings the world over are so often couched in stories. For centuries, religious teachers from many traditions have used stories to instruct their followers. When Swamiji tells a story, the local barber rocks in helpless laughter, and a sari-wearing French nurse looks on enrapt. Farmers make decisions based on the tales, and American psychotherapists take notes that link the storytelling to their own practices. Narayan herself is a key character in this ethnography. As both a local woman and a foreign academic, she is somewhere between participant and observer, reacting to the nuances of fieldwork with a sensitivity that only such a position can bring. Each story s reproduced in its evocative performance setting. Narayan supplements eight folk narratives with discussions of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes. All these stories focus on the complex figure of the Hindu ascetic and so sharpen our understanding of renunciation and gurus in South Asia. While Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels raises provocative theoretical issues, it is also a moving human document. Swamiji, with his droll characterizations, inventive mind, and generous spirit, is a memorable character. The book contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on narrative. It will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of anthropology, folklore, performance studies, religions, and South Asian studies.
Storytelling --- Asceticism --- Hindus --- Tales --- Hinduism --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism. --- Folklore --- History and criticism. --- Customs and practices. --- Ethnography.
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Folklore --- Manners and customs --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling
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Folklore --- -Folklore --- -Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Philosophy --- Finland --- Scandinavia --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Social life and customs. --- Philosophy. --- -Philosophy --- Folk beliefs
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Compiled to accompany the best-selling textbook, Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction, the selections in this anthology extend the discussion in diverse directions, alert the reader to new problems, and introduce alternative perspectives. The essays include folklore classics and recent works, and are organized in sections that correspond to the chapter headings in An Introduction.
Folklore --- -Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- United States --- Social life and customs. --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore, American --- Folklore. --- Etats-Unis --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Social life and customs
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Africa in motion pictures --- Folklore in motion pictures --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Motion pictures --- Africa in moving-pictures --- Performance
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Storytelling --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- 261.8*76 --- -Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Oecumenische theologie: christelijke opvoeding en theologische vorming --- -Christianity --- Performance --- -Oecumenische theologie: christelijke opvoeding en theologische vorming --- 261.8*76 Oecumenische theologie: christelijke opvoeding en theologische vorming --- -261.8*76 Oecumenische theologie: christelijke opvoeding en theologische vorming --- Story-telling --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Story-telling (Christian theology) --- Storytelling - Religious aspects - Christianity
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