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082	0	0	_a306.48409593 _bWON/S
100	1		_aWong, Deborah Anne.
245	1	0	_aSounding the center: history and aesthetics in Thai Buddhist performance/ _cDeborah Wong.
260			_aChicago: _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2001.
300			_axxxiv, 348 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aConventions 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
650		0	_aRitual _zThailand _zBangkok.
650		0	_aEthnomusicology _zThailand _zBangkok.
650		0	_aFolklore _zThailand _zBangkok _xPerformance.
650		0	_aOral tradition _zThailand _zBangkok.
650		0	_aDance _xReligious aspects _zThailand _zBangkok.
650		0	_aBuddhist dance _zThailand _zBangkok.
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