The Life of a Text
Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas
by Philip Lutgendorf
469 pages· 1991· ISBN 9780520066908
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"The range of Manas performance traditions captured here is immense. What is wonderful and remarkable is that each is presented vividly, with careful ethnographic detail, so that they become living traditions to the reader."--Susan Wadley, Syracuse University
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