Wong, Deborah Anne.

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

0226905853 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226905861 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Ritual--Thailand--Bangkok.
Ethnomusicology--Thailand--Bangkok.
Folklore--Performance.--Thailand--Bangkok
Oral tradition--Thailand--Bangkok.
Dance--Religious aspects--Thailand--Bangkok.
Buddhist dance--Thailand--Bangkok.

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