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convincing people that wood and string have feelings, then making them cry about it
means The art of bringing inanimate figures to life through manipulation, telling stories with objects worked by hand, rod, or string.
from From "puppet," which traces back through Middle French "poupette" (a little doll) to Latin "pupa," meaning girl or doll — the same root that gives us "pupil" (the tiny figure of yourself reflected in someone's eye) and "pupa" (an insect in its doll-like cocoon stage). The "-ry" suffix marks it as a craft or practice, like "jewelry" or "archery." So at its heart, puppetry is simply the doing-of-dolls.
- ancient roots
- Practiced over 4,000 years ago in Egypt and India
- bunraku crew
- Three puppeteers operate one Japanese figure together
- war disguise
- Czechs used puppet shows to dodge Nazi censorship
- shadow origins
- Wayang puppets cast stories on cloth by lamplight
- royal scale
- Some Sicilian marionettes weigh over 80 pounds
bunraku — japanese traditional puppet theater with 3-meter-tall puppets, unesco intangible cultural heritage since 2001
shadow puppets — wayang kulit of indonesia and malaysia, performed for centuries with intricately carved leather puppets behind lit screens
muppets — jim henson's characters starting with the muppet show in 1976, revolutionizing television puppetry