Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects (eBook, PDF)

Volume I Sacred Roots: Material Entities, Consecrating Acts, Priestly Puppeteers
Redaktion: Orenstein, Claudia; Cusack, Tim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000910681
• Artikelnr.: 68259261

Autorenporträt

Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia. Tim Cusack is Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre at Hunter College. He was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, an independent theatre company dedicated to the exploration of representations of queerness onstage. Puppetry has always been an aspect of his creative process.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of editors and contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Claudia Orenstein and Tim Cusack SECTION I: Shamanic Lineages 1. Puppets and Souls: Some Encounters in Korean Shaman Ritual Laurel Kendall 2. Mamulengo and Spirituality: Are There Still Some Connections? Izabela Brochado 3. Sogo bò: The Puppet Remains the Soul of the People, an Interview with Yaya Coulibaly Heather Jeanne Denyer 4. The Hula Ki`i, The Dance of the Sacred Image, Hawaiian Puppetry: N
pali Souza Interview with Auli'i Mitchell N
pali Souza and Auli'i Mitchell SECTION II: Communal Celebrations 5. Japanese Karakuri Ningy
and the Performance of Shinto Yasuko Senda and William Condee 6. Superhuman Superpowers: Puppets and Masks of Bhaona from the Assam Region of India Deepsikha Chatterjee 7. Wayang Ritual Drama of Cirebon: Continuance of a Kratophanic Tradition Matthew Isaac Cohen 8. "I Have Come to Do a Purification": Interview with Masako Nakauchi and Kimiyo Minami Tomoe Kobayashi and Simon Moers SECTION III: Powerful Players 9. Passing Down Through Shadows: Chinese Shadow Puppetry's Ghostly Transmission Annie Katsura Rollins 10. The Matter That Matters: An Exploration of Power and Materiality in Thai Nang Yai Claudia Orenstein 11. Consecrated Puppets: The Puppet Deities of Southern China and Taiwan Robin Ruizendaal 12. Exploring Spirituality in Tholpavakoothu Shadow Puppetry of Kerala: A Conversation with Puppeteer Ramachandra Pulavar Sangeeth Sankar A. and Rahul Koonathara SECTION IV: Doctrinal Dialogues 13. Islam, Animism and Animation of Objects: Growth and Restrictions of Puppetry Under the Shadow of Religion Salma Mohseni Ardehali and Mir Mohammadreza Heydari 14. Saintly Puppet Masters and Sacred Clowning: Antinomian Religion and Patterns in Islamic Puppetry of Java Kathy Foley 15. Performing Death: A Medieval Puppet of Christ Michelle K. Oing SECTION V: Holding Heritage 16. The Enchanted Kaavad: Hierophany in Motion Nina Sabnani 17. Forging a Material Connection to the Divine: The Life Cycle Rituals of the Sefer Torah Joseph Maybloom Index