Ramayana Theater in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Madoka Fukuoka is a professor of cultural anthropology at the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan. She completed her BA from Tokyo University of the Arts; MA from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo; and PhD from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan. She is a member of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Japan Popular Music Society, International Council for Traditional Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, and Southeast Asian Society. Her research areas include cultural anthropology and folklore, gender studies, philosophy and ethics, aesthetics, and art studies.

1. Introduction: Multiple Meanings of Ramayana Theater in Contemporary Southeast Asia 2. The Modern Development of Ramakian, the Thai Ramayana, as Seen in Films by Chaiyo Studio 3. Death of Kumbhakarna: Interpretation of the Story by Dalang of Balinese Wayang 4. Ramayana Theater in Cambodia 5. Ramayana in the Performing Arts: Connection with the Government and Local/National/Global Indian Identity in Singapore 6. Ramayana Theater in Tourism Culture: The Story Presented in the Javanese Dance Drama Form, Sendratari 7. A History of Thai Intellectuals’ Perceptions of Khon, the Masked Dance of Ramayana, on the Modern World Stage 8. Exhibiting Ramayana in a Japanese Museum: Activities of National Museum of Ethnology, Japan 9. Art Works