TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wong,Deborah Anne
TI  - Sounding the center: history and aesthetics in Thai Buddhist performance
SN  - 0226905853 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 306.48409593 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Bangkok
KW  - Ethnomusicology
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Performance
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Dance
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Buddhist dance
N1  - 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
ER  -