File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_2002/puptcrit.0202, message 90


Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:00:15 EST
Subject: Re: PUPT: destroying puppets



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In a message dated 2/9/2002 8:12:49 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
john_bell-AT-emerson.edu writes:


> I would add that burning, destroying, or collapsing giant figures has long 
> functioned as the climax of pageants created by Bread and Puppet Theater, 
> and that the connections of this kind of action go back to Ram Lila in 
> India, carnival in Basel (Switzerland), ritual mask performance in Korea, 
> etc.
> 

and Navajo sand paintings - - -

Nancy Smith

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In a message dated 2/9/2002 8:12:49 AM US Mountain Standard Time, john_bell-AT-emerson.edu writes:


I would add that burning, destroying, or collapsing giant figures has long functioned as the climax of pageants created by Bread and Puppet Theater, and that the connections of this kind of action go back to Ram Lila in India, carnival in Basel (Switzerland), ritual mask performance in Korea, etc.


and Navajo sand paintings - - -

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