The aim of the author's research was to study 1) the thematic elements and the composition of the plays (lelampahan wayang), and 2) their religious and cultural background. She concentrates on one particular play: the story of Bima Swarga. The study is based mainly on fieldwork carried out in Bali over the period 1972- 1976, when materials were collected from oral and written sources.
Power Plays (Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia)
by Andrew N. Weintraub
Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia. Wayang golek has shaped, as well, the technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society. Using interviews with performers, musica...
A Photographic Guide to the History of Oriental and Occidental Shadow Puppet Theatre
by Max Von Boehn
Garfield Treasury (Garfield miscellaneous) (Garfield Treasuries S.)
by Jim Davis
Garfield's third treasury of Sunday comic strips, showcases the feisty Fat Cat in all his glory...and gluttony.
