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Singing of Birth and Death: Texts in Performance
Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1988
ISBN 10: 0812280970 ISBN 13: 9780812280975
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket.
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Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India
Language: English
Published by Univ of California Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 0520054989 ISBN 13: 9780520054981
Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.
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Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India
Language: English
Published by Univ of California Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 0520054989 ISBN 13: 9780520054981
Hardcover. Condition: As New. APPEARS UNREAD. Hardcover shows minimal shelving wear, otherwise an UNBLEMISHED copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Singing of Birth and Death: Texts in Performance
Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1988
ISBN 10: 0812280970 ISBN 13: 9780812280975
Seller: Nightshade Booksellers, IOBA member, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, stated. A fine copy in a fine DJ, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #83.
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Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0520054989 ISBN 13: 9780520054981
Seller: Windows Booksellers, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing and slight wear on all edges of text. Dust jacket fading along spine and cover slightly dented on lower corners. Else good. 387 pp.
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Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0520054989 ISBN 13: 9780520054981
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Gray cloth binding with no former owner marks. Overall in very good condition.
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Oral Epics in India
Language: English
Published by Univ of California Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 0520063244 ISBN 13: 9780520063242
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Oral Epics in India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0520063244 ISBN 13: 9780520063242
Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket is worn, especially along edges. Inside jacket is tanned. Spine is cracked but secure. Cover edges are worn. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Oral Epics in India
Language: English
Published by Univ of California Pr, U.S.A., 1989
ISBN 10: 0520063244 ISBN 13: 9780520063242
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean unmarked handcover copy in good condition. Light rubbing and edgewear, lower corner of text block bumped/stained with slight creasing of bumped pages.
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Inside the Drama-House : Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0520202066 ISBN 13: 9780520202061
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Oral epics in India / edited by Stuart H. Blackburn
Language: English
Published by Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0520063244 ISBN 13: 9780520063242
First Edition
First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 290 p. : ill ; 24 cm. Subjects: Epic poetry, Indic History and criticism Congresses; Folk literature, Indic History and criticism Congresses; Tales India India; Legends India; Epic poetry, Indic History and criticism; Folk literature, Indic History and criticism; Tales India. 3 Kg.
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Inside the Drama-House : Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0520202066 ISBN 13: 9780520202061
Condition: New.
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Oral epics in India / edited by Stuart H. Blackburn
Language: English
Published by Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0520063244 ISBN 13: 9780520063242
First Edition
First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 290 p. : ill ; 24 cm. Subjects: Epic poetry, Indic History and criticism Congresses; Folk literature, Indic History and criticism Congresses; Tales India India; Legends India; Epic poetry, Indic History and criticism; Folk literature, Indic History and criticism; Tales India. 1 Kg.
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Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
Language: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 025321727X ISBN 13: 9780253217271
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: New. x, 323 pages : 2 illustrations ; 21 cm. Contents: Introduction: life histories in India / David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn The self and the cell : Indian prison narratives as life histories / David Arnold The reticent autobiographer: Mahadevi Varma's writings / Francesca Orsini The invention of private life: a reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography / Sudipta Kaviraj The past in the present: instruction, pleasure, and blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap biitii / Barbara D. Metcalf Hamara daur-i hayat : an Indian Muslim woman writes her life / Sylvia Vatuk Cowherd or king? the Sanskrit biography of Ananda Ranga Pillai / David Shulman Life histories as narrative strategy : prophecy, song, and truth-telling in Tamil tales and legends / Stuart Blackburn Honor is honor, after all: silence and speech in the life stories of women in Kangra, North-West India / Kirin Narayan Beyond silence : a Dalit life history in South India / Josiane Racine, Jean-Luc Racine The marital history of a thumb-impression man / Jonathan P. Parry.
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Oral Epics in India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1989
ISBN 10: 0520063244 ISBN 13: 9780520063242
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. based on conference papers, 1982, Joint Committee on South Asia. other contrib: Brenda Beck; Jonathan GoldbergBelle; Komal Kothari; Karine Schomer; John Smith; Susan Wadley. textured black boards, duotone illus black dj, exc cond, clean & bright, appears unread; sml owner name in ink top ffep, no other marks, b/w txt figures, 2 tables, 14 maps showing origins for various epics, 290 pp. Size: 6.5"-9.5".
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Another Harmony. New Essays On The Folklore Of India
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986
BINDING - Rebound full cloth. Condition: CONDITION - Used/ Good. 387 Pages.
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Oral Epics in India
Published by Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989., 1989
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Association Member: ANZAAB ILAB
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
First Edition
8vo, xii + 290pp. Original cloth in bredominantly black dustwrapper, very slightly rubbed. b/w maps and diagramatic illustrations. A near-fine copy. First edition.
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Another Harmony. New Essays on the Folklore of India.
Language: English
Published by Oxford Oxford Univ Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0520054989 ISBN 13: 9780520054981
Seller: Antiquariat Buecher-Boerse.com - Ulrich Maier, München, Germany
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
387 S., orig. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag ; Sprache: Englisch ; Literaturverzeichnis S. 342- 367 ; Einband an den Rändern stockfleckig durch wasserschaden, sonst sehr guter, sauberer Zustand ;
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Inside the Drama-House : Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0520202066 ISBN 13: 9780520202061
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: New.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing. Asian Studies, India.
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Inside the Drama-House : Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0520202066 ISBN 13: 9780520202061
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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A Flowering Tree And Other Oral Tales from India
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xv, 270 pages ; 24 cm.
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Singing of birth and death. Texts in performance.
Published by Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, ,, 1988
XXIV/263 S., OLn., OU., gutes Exemplar, Sprache: englisch.
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Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India
Published by University of California, 1986
First Edition
Condition: As New. 1st ed. near fine/dj also near fine.
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Singing of Birth and Death. Texts in Performance.
Language: English
Published by Philad., University of Pennsylvania Press,, 1988
ISBN 10: 0812280970 ISBN 13: 9780812280975
Seller: Antiquariat Alte Seiten - Jochen Mitter, Göttingen, Germany
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
OLn. 2, OU. XXIV,263 S., Illustr., Wegen der EPR-Bestimmungen liefern wir nicht nach Bulgarien, Dänemark, Estland, Griechenland, Irland, Litauen, Luxemburg, Malta, Kroatien, Polen, Portugal, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Slowenien und Ungarn. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 685.
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A flowering tree and other oral tales from India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0520203992 ISBN 13: 9780520203990
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. xv, 270 pages : 23 cm. Summary:This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style.
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Another Harmony : New Essays on the Folklore of India
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986
ISBN 10: 0520054989 ISBN 13: 9780520054981
Seller: Librairie Sheehy (Theologia Books), La Charite sur Loire, France
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. x, 387pp. Book.
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Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales from Oral Tradition
Language: English
Published by Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki Finland, 2001
ISBN 10: 9514108981 ISBN 13: 9789514108983
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Oversize quality softcover with pictorial dust jacket, Near Fine condition with light edge rubbing.
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Oral Epics in India
Language: English
Published by University Of California Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0520063244 ISBN 13: 9780520063242
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine In A Very Good Jacket Pp 290 Index Maps Diagrams.
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Singing Of Birth And Death: Texts In Performance
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988
Hardback. Stuart H. Blackburn, University of Pennsylvania Press. Author: Stuart H. BlackburnBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun-faded spine.This scholarly work presents a compelling analysis of how fundamental human experiences, particularly birth and death, are articulated and understood through various cultural performances. Stuart H. Blackburn meticulously uncovers the intricate relationship between oral traditions, ritualistic practices, and the texts that shape them across diverse societies. The author illustrates how these performances serve not merely as entertainment but as vital mechanisms for transmitting cultural knowledge, reinforcing social structures, and processing profound existential themes. Readers will find an insightful examination of the power of narrative and song to embody and interpret the most significant transitions in human life. Singing Of Birth And Death: Texts In Performance offers a rigorous academic perspective on the enduring human need to ritualize and express the cycles of existence. Hardback.
