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Jennifer Goodlander - Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali - 9780896803039 - V9780896803039
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Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali

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Description for Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali Hardback. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; ASZM; JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.

Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and perform in this traditionally male role, an innovation that has triggered resistance and controversy.
In Women in the Shadows, Jennifer Goodlander draws on her own experience training as a dalang as well as interviews with early women dalang and leading artists to upend the usual assessments of such gender role shifts. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780896803039
SKU
V9780896803039
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jennifer Goodlander
Jennifer Goodlander is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Dance at Indiana University. She has performed Balinese shadow puppetry in China, Indonesia, and around the United States. Her research focuses on the relationship between tradition and modernity as expressed through puppetry in Southeast Asia.

Reviews for Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali
“Goodlander presents an intimate, detailed account of her studies to become a dalang, contextualizing her experiences with those of the few Balinese women dalangs. She contends that this incursion must ultimately be perceived within the gendered power systems of Balinese culture. Summing up: Recommended.”
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“[Women in the Shadows] is an exceptional and very personal work filled with ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali


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