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Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Stuart Blackburn
Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India
Stuart Blackburn
Taking the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry, this work describes the performance of the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. It describes the skill and stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala, as they perform all night for as many as ten weeks during the festival season.
310 pages, 6 photographs, 2 maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 28, 1996 |
ISBN13 | 9780520202061 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 310 |
Dimensions | 229 × 152 × 27 mm · 444 g |
Language | English |
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