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Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
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The Other In Southeast Asian Puppetry, Kathy Foley
The Other In Southeast Asian Puppetry, Kathy Foley
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
Southeast Asian wayang/nang talung puppetry presents the local hero as refined. Three types of “others” repeat: 1) comic foreigners, 2) Raja Sabrangan (“Overseas King”) and followers, and 3) physically deformed clown servants. The last two groups are important and may relate to Austronesian concepts of spirit siblings accompanying each person through life.