![]() The team’s goal was to have “the process of digital repatriation traveling full circle.” Screen capture from the film showing villagers critiquing the film. A second screening was organized, which included the new short films made by the members of the community themselves. In addition, Peck’s team recorded short vignettes of the five villagers’ daily routines and the craft of the puppeteers. Five villagers were then selected, including puppeteers, village officials, academics, and students, and trained to make films of their own about water puppetry. A community screening was organized, and villagers were encouraged to express their opinions about them. Peck and his team traveled to the village of Bao Ha with a series of archival, government-made films about the village’s famous water puppet shows. Sam Peck, a cultural anthropologist at Kenyon College, and a team of graduate assistants have produced a charming-if slightly uneven-documentary exploring the production and reception of the film in a rural village. Screen capture from the film showing the water puppet theater in the village of Bao Ha in the red river Delta, Việt Nam. Few visitors travel to the rural Vietnamese countryside to see the water puppet shows in the settings for which they were intended, the rice paddy deltas. Troupes have also been brought to the US for Asian cultural festivals. Today, watching a performance of this unique folk art has come to be mandatory for tourists to Việt Nam, where water puppet shows are often held at sophisticated theaters in major cities, such as Hanoi. ![]() Villagers staged water puppet performances to celebrate the end of the rice harvest, at religious festivals, and simply for entertainment. Water puppetry arose in the Red River delta and other rice-growing regions of northern Việt Nam a thousand years ago, during the Lý dynasty. Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Artsĭownload PDF Water Puppetry in Vietnam An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World PRODUCED BY SAM PECK 31 MINUTES, COLOR BERKELEY MEDIA LLC, 2012 Reviewed by Karen Kane.Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award. ![]() Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award.Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars.Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies.Cultivating the Humanities & Social Sciences Initiative Grants. ![]()
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