Puppets of Nostalgia Tapa dura - 1997

Princeton, New Jersey: Princetoin University Press, 1997. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii 322 pages, illustrated with black and white photos, annotated, bibliography and indexed. "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 a ten-year period. In addition to being a detailed history and ethnography of this ritual tradition, Law's work is, at a theoretical level, a study of the process and meaning of tradition formation, reformation, invention, and revitalization. It will interest scholars in a number of fields, including the history of religions, anthropology, cultural studies, ritual and theater studies, Japanese studies, and social… Leer más

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