Puppetry Research Guide - Unima

Demon Abduction: A Wayang Ritual Drama from West Java. Book. Jakarta: The Lontar
Foundation, 1998.
Selected articles and essays:
Puppetry and the Destruction of the Object. Performance Research 12 (4), 2007, pp. 119-
127.
Contemporary wayang in Global Contexts. Asian Theatre Journal 24 (2), 2007, pp. 338-369.
Dancing the Subject of ‘Java’: International Modernism and Traditional Performance, 1899-
1952. Indonesia and the Malay World 35 (101), 2007, pp. 9-29.
Wayang Kulit and Islam: Perspectives from Cirebon. In Dimensions of Shadow Play in Malay
Civilization. Edited by Faridah Noor Mohd Noor. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Civilisational
Dialogue, University of Malaya, 2006, pp. 39-61.
Wayang kulit as a Contact Zone: Tradition in Global Flux. In Ethnicity and Identity: Global
Performance. Edited by Ravi Chaturvedi and Brian Singleton. Jaipur, India: Rawat, 2005,
pp. 423-441.
Traditional and Popular Painting in Modern Java. Archipel 69, 2005, pp. 5-38.
Entrusting the Scriptures: wayang kulit, Cultural Politics, and Truly Popular Art in New Order
West Java. In Puppet Theatre in Contemporary Indonesia: New Approaches to Performance
Events. Edited by Jan Mrazek. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies,
The University of Michigan, 2002, pp. 109-123.
Reading Suluk Wayang: Javanese shadow puppets, nala-vision, private self, bodily self.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 12 (2), 2002, pp. 167-186.
Reading for performance: A Cirebonese romance as a narrative model for wayang.
In Reading Asia: New Research in Asian Studies. Edited by Frans Hüsken and Dick van
der Meij. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001, pp. 197-218.
The Big Man and the Puppeteer: A Transcultural Morality Tale from West Java. Indonesia:
Puppetry Yearbook 4, 2000, pp. 103-156.
The Barikan Banner of Gegesik: Ritual and History in a Village Painting from Colonial Java.
Written with T. E. Behrend and T. L. Cooper. Archipel 59, 2000, pp. 97-144.
Conceptual Worlds: Play and Theatre in Child Psychoanalysis. In The Many Meanings of
Play: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. Edited by Albert J. Solnit, Donald J. Cohen, and Peter
B. Neubauer, written with Phyllis M. Cohen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993,
pp. 75-98.
Chimeric Objects and Playthings. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 42, 1987, pp. 85-103.
Research:
Indonesian theatre and performance, including shadow puppet theatre (wayang kulit);
traditional and post-traditional puppetry worldwide; interculturalism, globalization and theatre;
cross-cultural performance theory.
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