Author: REBLING, E.,
Title: Die Tanzkunst Indonesiens. [Erste Auflage;First edition].
Description: Berlin, Henschel, 1989. Original cloth, white relief on fron cover, title in spine, dustjacket. 156pp. printed in double collumns. 30 captioned photo plates, of which coloured, figures in text and full page, double page map of Indonesia with extensive legenda, explanatory glossary indonesian-german, bibliography, register of personal-, and subject names, illustrated endpapers, table of contents. German language survey and detailed classification of classic Indonesian Dance; tribal-, and folkdance (rain and hunting, exorcism, fertility, war, ceremony and origin); classic javanese dance forms (wayang kulit, puppets, masked dance; classic Balinese classic dance and shadow theatre; Indonesian dance after 1945. Very fine copy.

Keywords: dance performance theatre java bali tradition ceremony religion folkdance indonesia southeast asia fertility wardance shadowtheatre topeng exorcism superstition