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Sounding the center: history and aesthetics in Thai Buddhist performance/ Deborah Wong.

By: Wong, Deborah AnneMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001Description: xxxiv, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226905853 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226905861 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Ritual -- Thailand -- Bangkok | Ethnomusicology -- Thailand -- Bangkok | Folklore -- Thailand -- Bangkok -- Performance | Oral tradition -- Thailand -- Bangkok | Dance -- Religious aspects -- Thailand -- Bangkok | Buddhist dance -- Thailand -- BangkokDDC classification: 306.48409593

Contents:

Conventions and Orthography 1. Men Who Become the Deity: The Thai Body in Performance, The Thai Body as History 2. Performing Wai Khruu Ritual 3. Knowledge and Power in Thai Culture: Teachers as Hermits 4. Sounding the Sacred 5. Inscribing the Wai Khruu Ritual: Two Written Accounts 6. Inheritance and Nationalism: The Social Construction of Wai Khruu Rituals in Bangkok 7. The Wai Khruu as a Gendered Cultural System 8. Conclusions: Thoughts on Change

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.48409593 WON/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P19486

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Conventions and Orthography
1. Men Who Become the Deity: The Thai Body in Performance, The Thai Body as History
2. Performing Wai Khruu Ritual
3. Knowledge and Power in Thai Culture: Teachers as Hermits
4. Sounding the Sacred
5. Inscribing the Wai Khruu Ritual: Two Written Accounts
6. Inheritance and Nationalism: The Social Construction of Wai Khruu Rituals in Bangkok
7. The Wai Khruu as a Gendered Cultural System
8. Conclusions: Thoughts on Change

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