Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia. Tim Cusack is Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre at Hunter College. He was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, an independent theatre company dedicated to the exploration of representations of queerness onstage. Puppetry has always been an aspect of his creative process.

• List of FiguresList of editors and contributorsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionClaudia Orenstein and Tim CusackSECTION I: Shamanic Lineages Puppets and Souls: Some Encounters in Korean Shaman Ritual Laurel Kendall2. Mamulengo and Spirituality: Are There Still Some Connections?Izabela Brochado3. Sogo bò: The Puppet Remains the Soul of the People, an Interview with Yaya CoulibalyHeather Jeanne Denyer 4. The Hula Ki`i, The Dance of the Sacred Image, Hawaiian Puppetry: Nāpali Souza Interview with Auli’i MitchellNāpali Souza and Auli'i Mitchell SECTION II: Communal Celebrations 5. Japanese Karakuri Ningyō and the Performance of Shinto Yasuko Senda and William Condee6. Superhuman Superpowers: Puppets and Masks of Bhaona from the Assam Region of IndiaDeepsikha Chatterjee 7. Wayang Ritual Drama of Cirebon: Continuance of a Kratophanic TraditionMatthew Isaac Cohen8. "I Have Come to Do a Purification": Interview with Masako Nakauchi and Kimiyo Minami Tomoe Kobayashi and Simon MoersSECTION III: Powerful Players9. Passing Down Through Shadows: Chinese Shadow Puppetry’s Ghostly TransmissionAnnie Katsura Rollins10. The Matter That Matters: An Exploration of Power and Materiality in Thai Nang Yai Claudia Orenstein11. Consecrated Puppets: The Puppet Deities of Southern China and TaiwanRobin Ruizendaal12. Exploring Spirituality in Tholpavakoothu Shadow Puppetry of Kerala: A Conversation with Puppeteer Ramachandra PulavarSangeeth Sankar A. and Rahul Koonathara SECTION IV: Doctrinal Dialogues 13. Islam, Animism and Animation of Objects: Growth and Restrictions of Puppetry Under the Shadow of ReligionSalma Mohseni Ardehali and Mir Mohammadreza Heydari14. Saintly Puppet Masters and Sacred Clowning: Antinomian Religion and Patterns in Islamic Puppetry of JavaKathy Foley 15. Performing Death: A Medieval Puppet of ChristMichelle K. OingSECTION V: Holding Heritage16. The Enchanted Kaavad: Hierophany in MotionNina Sabnani17. Forging a Material Connection to the Divine: The Life Cycle Rituals of the Sefer TorahJoseph MaybloomIndex

Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia. Tim Cusack is Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre at Hunter College. He was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, an independent theatre company dedicated to the exploration of representations of queerness onstage. Puppetry has always been an aspect of his creative process.

• List of FiguresList of editors and contributorsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionClaudia Orenstein and Tim CusackSECTION I: Shamanic Lineages Puppets and Souls: Some Encounters in Korean Shaman Ritual Laurel Kendall2. Mamulengo and Spirituality: Are There Still Some Connections?Izabela Brochado3. Sogo bò: The Puppet Remains the Soul of the People, an Interview with Yaya CoulibalyHeather Jeanne Denyer 4. The Hula Ki`i, The Dance of the Sacred Image, Hawaiian Puppetry: Nāpali Souza Interview with Auli’i MitchellNāpali Souza and Auli'i Mitchell SECTION II: Communal Celebrations 5. Japanese Karakuri Ningyō and the Performance of Shinto Yasuko Senda and William Condee6. Superhuman Superpowers: Puppets and Masks of Bhaona from the Assam Region of IndiaDeepsikha Chatterjee 7. Wayang Ritual Drama of Cirebon: Continuance of a Kratophanic TraditionMatthew Isaac Cohen8. "I Have Come to Do a Purification": Interview with Masako Nakauchi and Kimiyo Minami Tomoe Kobayashi and Simon MoersSECTION III: Powerful Players9. Passing Down Through Shadows: Chinese Shadow Puppetry’s Ghostly TransmissionAnnie Katsura Rollins10. The Matter That Matters: An Exploration of Power and Materiality in Thai Nang Yai Claudia Orenstein11. Consecrated Puppets: The Puppet Deities of Southern China and TaiwanRobin Ruizendaal12. Exploring Spirituality in Tholpavakoothu Shadow Puppetry of Kerala: A Conversation with Puppeteer Ramachandra PulavarSangeeth Sankar A. and Rahul Koonathara SECTION IV: Doctrinal Dialogues 13. Islam, Animism and Animation of Objects: Growth and Restrictions of Puppetry Under the Shadow of ReligionSalma Mohseni Ardehali and Mir Mohammadreza Heydari14. Saintly Puppet Masters and Sacred Clowning: Antinomian Religion and Patterns in Islamic Puppetry of JavaKathy Foley 15. Performing Death: A Medieval Puppet of ChristMichelle K. OingSECTION V: Holding Heritage16. The Enchanted Kaavad: Hierophany in MotionNina Sabnani17. Forging a Material Connection to the Divine: The Life Cycle Rituals of the Sefer TorahJoseph MaybloomIndex

Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia. Tim Cusack is Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre at Hunter College. He was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, an independent theatre company dedicated to the exploration of representations of queerness onstage. Puppetry has always been an aspect of his creative process.

• List of FiguresList of editors and contributorsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionClaudia Orenstein and Tim CusackSECTION I: Shamanic Lineages Puppets and Souls: Some Encounters in Korean Shaman Ritual Laurel Kendall2. Mamulengo and Spirituality: Are There Still Some Connections?Izabela Brochado3. Sogo bò: The Puppet Remains the Soul of the People, an Interview with Yaya CoulibalyHeather Jeanne Denyer 4. The Hula Ki`i, The Dance of the Sacred Image, Hawaiian Puppetry: Nāpali Souza Interview with Auli’i MitchellNāpali Souza and Auli'i Mitchell SECTION II: Communal Celebrations 5. Japanese Karakuri Ningyō and the Performance of Shinto Yasuko Senda and William Condee6. Superhuman Superpowers: Puppets and Masks of Bhaona from the Assam Region of IndiaDeepsikha Chatterjee 7. Wayang Ritual Drama of Cirebon: Continuance of a Kratophanic TraditionMatthew Isaac Cohen8. "I Have Come to Do a Purification": Interview with Masako Nakauchi and Kimiyo Minami Tomoe Kobayashi and Simon MoersSECTION III: Powerful Players9. Passing Down Through Shadows: Chinese Shadow Puppetry’s Ghostly TransmissionAnnie Katsura Rollins10. The Matter That Matters: An Exploration of Power and Materiality in Thai Nang Yai Claudia Orenstein11. Consecrated Puppets: The Puppet Deities of Southern China and TaiwanRobin Ruizendaal12. Exploring Spirituality in Tholpavakoothu Shadow Puppetry of Kerala: A Conversation with Puppeteer Ramachandra PulavarSangeeth Sankar A. and Rahul Koonathara SECTION IV: Doctrinal Dialogues 13. Islam, Animism and Animation of Objects: Growth and Restrictions of Puppetry Under the Shadow of ReligionSalma Mohseni Ardehali and Mir Mohammadreza Heydari14. Saintly Puppet Masters and Sacred Clowning: Antinomian Religion and Patterns in Islamic Puppetry of JavaKathy Foley 15. Performing Death: A Medieval Puppet of ChristMichelle K. OingSECTION V: Holding Heritage16. The Enchanted Kaavad: Hierophany in MotionNina Sabnani17. Forging a Material Connection to the Divine: The Life Cycle Rituals of the Sefer TorahJoseph MaybloomIndex