Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (338 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691604711
,
1400872952
,
9780691604718
,
9781400872954
Serie:
Princeton Legacy Library
Inhalt:
Puppets of Nostalgia is the first major work in any Western language to examine the ritual origins and religious dimensions of puppetry in Japan. In a lucid and engaging style accessible to the general reader, Jane Marie Law describes the ""life, death, and rebirth"" of awaji ningyo shibai, the unique form of puppet theater of Awaji Island that has existed since the sixteenth century. Puppetry rites on Awaji helped to maintain rigid ritual purity codes and to keep dangerous spiritual forces properly channeled and appeased. Law conducted fieldwork on Awaji, located in Japan's Inland Sea, over
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 069102894X
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Law, Jane Marie Puppets of nostalgia Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©1997
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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