This book is so richly written, I return to it and use it as a bench mark in scholarship. It's wide reference points reflect inclusion and hooked me in. Here is a book that unpacks not only the marginalized area of puppetry but eloquently utilizes Mary Douglas's Purity & Danger to act as a vortex of discussion which takes the reader into the grain of society as well as the grain of the wood from which the puppets are carved. A truly beautiful book, one that I treasure and am so delighted is reprinted.
