LISTENING TO KRISHNA

McComas Taylor's Seven Days of Nectar offers a contrastive description of three seven-day performances of the traditional Sanskrit text Bhāgavatapurāna in different locations and with different sponsorship, bringing out the special characteristics of each as a variant of living textual practice...

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Published in:History and Theory 2018-06, Vol.57 (2), p.286-291
Main Author: Saussy, Haun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Aspiration
Cultural identity
Diaspora
diglossia
epic
Epic literature
Gift giving
Globalization
Indian diaspora
Listening
orality
Prestige
recital
REVIEW ESSAYS
Sanskrit
Social life & customs
Sponsorship
Text analysis
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Summary:McComas Taylor's Seven Days of Nectar offers a contrastive description of three seven-day performances of the traditional Sanskrit text Bhāgavatapurāna in different locations and with different sponsorship, bringing out the special characteristics of each as a variant of living textual practice. The book also contains reports of interviews with reciters, detailing their backgrounds, education, and aspirations. This performance tradition has prospered under globalization, due to its place in a gift economy of prestige and to the desire on the part of sponsors to confirm their membership in a religious and national community.
ISSN:0018-2656
1468-2303
DOI:10.1111/hith.12062