TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodlander,Jennifer
TI  - Women in the shadows: gender, puppets, and the power of tradition in Bali 
T2  - Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series
SN  - 9780896804944
AV  - PN1979 .W664 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Shadow shows
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Bali Island
KW  - Women puppeteers
KW  - Wayang
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Language and Terms; Chapter 1-Gender, Puppets, and Tradition; Part One Sekala:The V isible Realm; Chapter 2-Practices ofTradition; Chapter 3-Objects of Tradition; Part Two Niskala:The I nvisible Realm; Chapter 4-Ritual Traditions; Chapter 5-Women Dalang; Chapter 6-Thoughts fromthe Shadows; Notes; Glossary; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - "Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and perform in this traditionally male role, an innovation that has triggered resistance and controversy. In Women in the Shadows, Jennifer Goodlander draws on her own experience training as a dalang as well as interviews with early women dalang and leading artists to upend the usual assessments of such gender role shifts. She argues that rather than assuming that women performers are necessarily mounting a challenge to tradition, "tradition" in Bali must be understood as a system of power that is inextricably linked to gender hierarchy. She examines the very idea of "tradition" and how it forms both an ideological and social foundation in Balinese culture. Ultimately, Goodlander offers a richer, more complicated understanding of both tradition and gender in Balinese society"--
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