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Telling Other Tales: Experiencing the Balinese Mask World

Telling Other Tales: Experiencing the Balinese Mask World

Chan Johnson, Irving

Hardcover

Series: Asian Heritages

AnthropologyGeneral DramaPerformance Art

ISBN10: 9048560772
ISBN13: 9789048560776
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 2 2026
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.69
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Since it first mesmerized Western audiences in the early 20th century, Balinese masked dance-drama (Topeng) has drawn sustained scholarly attention. Yet until now, much of that attention has been filtered through non-Balinese perspectives. Telling Other Tales seeks to redress this imbalance by presenting Topeng as a living, plural tradition--one whose meaning is co-created by Balinese and non-Balinese performers, scholars and other observers alike. In these essays, academic rigor and personal testimony sit in rich dialogue. Historians, anthropologists and theatre scholars engage alongside Balinese priests, musicians and Topeng practitioners, weaving together formal analysis with evocative reflections. Together, they illuminate how this ancient theatrical form is not only studied, but lived, acted and re-imagined in the everyday.

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