Herbert: Voices of Puppet Masters

by Mimi Herbert

The pages that follow are an account of a personal excursion into the world of the wayang golek puppet theater of Indonesia, a world populated by marvelous puppets, the carvers who create them, the musicians whose orchestra accompanies the puppet theater, the audiences whose lives they influence, and the puppet masters themselves, whose powers are respected by villager and city dweller alike. . . . My original intention was to write a history of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825543
• ISBN13: 9780824825546
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.3" x 10.7"