Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects : Volume I Sacred Roots: Material Entities, Consecrating Acts, Priestly Puppeteers (Paperback)

List of Figures

List of editors and contributors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

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 bo: 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