Seductive mediators: The nuuraa performer's ritual persona as a love magician in Kelantanese Thai society

Authors
Johnson, IC
Citation
Ic. Johnson, Seductive mediators: The nuuraa performer's ritual persona as a love magician in Kelantanese Thai society, J SE ASIA S, 30(2), 1999, pp. 286
Citations number
63
Categorie Soggetti
Politucal Science & public Administration
Journal title
JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
ISSN journal
00224634 → ACNP
Volume
30
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4634(199909)30:2<286:SMTNPR>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The actor-dancers of the Kelantanese Thai Nuuraa theatre are often seen by Kelantanese as practitioners of love magic. Theoretically, the Nuuraa can b e viewed as an ongoing process of mediation between cultural symbols. A Nuu raa performer inhabits an ambiguous and power-filled socio-ritualistic univ erse associated with unbridled magical know-how.