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Report: The Mak Yong Spiritual Dance Heritage Conference, Performances, and Workshops
- Asian Theatre Journal
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 29, Number 2, Fall 2012
- pp. 445-460
- 10.1353/atj.2012.0050
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This report notes the papers and performances on Malaysian, Thai, and Indonesian mak yong presented in the 2011 conference. It argues that historically Kelantan, Malaysia, and Pattani, Thailand, understandings of the form are shared. National borders inset in the colonial period and cultural politics of contemporary Southeast Asia have altered and divided the form.