Sounding the center: history and aesthetics in Thai Buddhist performance/
Deborah Wong.
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- xxxiv, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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