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Masked Dance

Masked Dance is a performative ritual within the genre of festival dance in which participants wear masks as integral elements of symbolic expression, cultural representation, or spiritual embodiment, distinguishing it from unmasked forms through the deliberate concealment of identity to enact mythological, ancestral, or supernatural roles.

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2017–2026

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Publications

7

They make themselves: work and play among the Baining of Papua New Guinea

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 113 citations

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The intestines of the state: youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 89 citations

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Surviving Secularization: Masking the Spirit in the Jankunu (John Canoe) Festivals of the Caribbean

Kenneth Bilby · New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids · 2010 · 48 citations · Full text

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On the Nature of Edward Gordon Craig's Über-Marionette

New Theatre Quarterly · 2010 · 16 citations

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The Nyau societies: our present understanding

Matthew Schoffeleers · ˜The œSociety of Malaŵi journal · 1976 · 14 citations

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Authors

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  1. LR
    Laurie Ross

    Clark University, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  2. DN
    Didik Nini Thowok

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  3. KB
    Kenneth Bilby

    1 publications · 48 citations

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  4. MS
    Matthew Schoffeleers

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  5. JW
    John W. Nunley

    Saint Louis Art Museum, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

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Institutions

2

  1. Korean Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

    Seoul, South Korea

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  2. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  3. Nottingham Trent University

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    1 publications

    10 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 202 citations

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  3. Asian Theatre Journal

    ATJ · 1 publications · 12 citations

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  4. TDR/The Drama Review

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

    1 publications · 10 citations

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