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Puppets of Nostalgia - The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Tradition (Paperback)
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Puppets of Nostalgia - The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Puppets of Nostalgia is the first major work in any Western
language to examine the ritual origins and religious dimensions of
puppetry in Japan. In a lucid and engaging style accessible to the
general reader, Jane Marie Law describes the "life, death, and
rebirth" of awaji ningyo shibai, the unique form of puppet theater
of Awaji Island that has existed since the sixteenth century.
Puppetry rites on Awaji helped to maintain rigid ritual purity
codes and to keep dangerous spiritual forces properly channeled and
appeased. Law conducted fieldwork on Awaji, located in Japan's
Inland Sea, over a ten-year period. In addition to being a detailed
history and ethnography of this ritual tradition, Law's work is, at
a theoretical level, a study of the process and meaning of
tradition formation, reformation, invention, and revitalization. It
will interest scholars in a number of fields, including the history
of religions, anthropology, cultural studies, ritual and theater
studies, Japanese studies, and social history. Focusing on the
puppetry tradition of Awaji Island, Puppets of Nostalgia describes
the activities of the island's ritual puppeteers and includes the
first English translation of their performance texts and detailed
descriptions of their rites. Because the author has lived on Awaji
during extended periods of research, the work includes fine
attention to local detail and nuanced readings of religious
currents in Japan that affect popular religious expression.
Illustrated throughout with rare photographs, the book provides an
in-depth view of a four-hundred-year-old tradition never so
thoroughly revealed to Western readers. Originally published in
1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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