
- 308 pages
- English
- PDF
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Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves
About this book
As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity. By a context-sensitive analysis of shadow-play performances, Ward Keeler shows that they fascinate so many people in Java because they dramatize consistent Javanese concerns about potency, status, and speech.
Originally published in 1987.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Interpreting a Javanese Art Form
- 1. Language, Power, and Asceticism
- 2. Family Relations
- 3. Village Politics
- 4. Potency, Possession, and Speech
- 5. Ritual Celebrations
- 6. The Status of Dhalang and Ritual Sponsors
- 7. The Dhalang, the Troupe, and the Tradition
- 8. The Pleasures of the Performance
- 9. On Javanese Interpretation
- 10. Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index