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Backstage Mandalay : the netherworld of the Burmese performing arts / Daniel Ehrlich.

Title
Backstage Mandalay : the netherworld of the Burmese performing arts / Daniel Ehrlich.
Author
Ehrlich, Daniel
Publication
Bangkok : River Books, 2012.

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Description
121 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm
Summary
This book provides a glimpse under the curtain into the netherworld of the ancient Burmese performing arts. Backstage Mandalay reveals the private rituals of classical Burmese performers as they prepare for all-night festivals in upper Burma.
Subject
  • Street theater > Burma
  • Street theater > Burma > Pictorial works
  • Street theater
  • Tanztheater
  • Besessenheitskult
  • Trance
  • Geisterglaube
  • Bildband
  • Burma
  • Birma
  • Mandalay
Genre/Form
Pictorial works
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Chapter 1: City in Suspension -- Chapter 2: Spirit Wives -- Chapter 3: Minthas-Becoming the Prince -- Chapter 4: Burmese Folk Festivals in Mandalay.
ISBN
  • 9786167339221
  • 6167339228
LCCN
^^2012306696
OCLC
  • 826290971
  • SCSB-11938543
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library