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Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia.
We tend to think of Ramayana and Mahabharata as books, but this is an impoverished perspective. In their origins, during most of their histories and for the vast majority of the millions of people who have been acquainted with them, the great South Asian "epics" have been and still are bedtime stories, performative traditions, hegemonic discourses, oral narratives, and political models, but only ...
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