Download PDF: Thompson, Now that’s preaching Abstract Communal expectations of preaching can reinforce narratives that limit preaching to particular tropes of performance, and in so doing, link preaching to certain bodies while excluding others. This essay explores how bodies of difference
Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town
Download PDF: RV Devarajan, Poetics of Conduct By Leela Prasad New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 291 pages. $28.00 Set in the town of Sringeri, in Northwest Karnataka, South India, Leela Prasad’s book Poetics of Conduct describes the intersection of authoritative institutional and