Volume 2 No. 2

SUMMER 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editor

Claudia Orenstein

FOUNDERS OF THE FIELD

Lawrence Switzky

ARTICLES

Guest Editor: Kathy Foley

Le Médecin malgré lui in the Context of Karagöz and Karagiozis

Peri Efe

From Samarkand to Spain: Islamic Tales in The Wayang Purwa Repertoire Traditions of Central Javanese Puppetry

Rudy Wiratama

Restorationland: The Lost & Found Objects of Atlanta’s Doll’s Head Trail

Thomas Fish

REPORTS

Interdisciplinary Dialogue Between Puppeteer and Researchers: Reflections on the 2025 Symposium of the Society for Arts and Anthropology

Kairu Yamanaka

EUMMA and UNIMA-USA: Korean Traditional Puppet Deolmi International Workshop

Karen Smith

BOOK REVIEWS

In the Beginning Were Puppets: Towards a Poetics of Puppetry. Edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Lisa Nais.

Asya Gorovits

Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects. Edited by Claudia Orenstein and Tim Cusack

Jennifer Goodlander

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Phantom Loss. Created by Heart of the Beast

Felicia Cooper

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Puppets: Expressions of Cultures at the National Taiwan Museum

Chee-Hann Wu

Ralph Chessé: A San Francisco Century

Kathy Foley

Review Board

Bradford Clark (Bowling Green State University), Matthew Cohen (University of Connecticut), Heather Jeanne Denyer (California State University, Fullerton), Deniz Khateri (Hunter College, CUNY), Sumarsam (Wesleyan University).

Cover Photo: The Art of Walking, work by Tim Hammer. (Photo: Erik Franssen; Courtesy of Tim Hammer)

 

 

 

 

  

 