Boneka pertunjukan

Boneka tangan tradisional

Sebuah acara Kathputli di Mandawa, Rajasthan, India

Boneka terakota Yunani kuno, abad ke-5/ke-4 SM, Museum Arkeologi Nasional, Athena

Boneka pertunjukan adalah sebuah oobyek, sering kali menyerupai manusia, hewan atau figur mistis, yang digerakkan atau dimanipulasi oleh seseorang yang disebut pementas boneka. Pementas boneka memakai gerak tangan, lengan atau alat kendali seperti tongkat atau tali untuk menggerakkan badan, kepala, lengan dan dalam beberapa kasus, mulut dan mata dari boneka pertunjukan tersebut.

Referensi

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• Bell, John, Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History, Wayne State University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-89558-156-6.

Buku dan artikel

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• Choe, Sang-su (1961). A Study of the Korean Puppet Play. The Korean Books Publishing Company Ltd. 
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• Feeney, John (1999). Puppet. Saudi Aramco World. 
• Flower, Cedric; Alan Fortney (1983). Puppets: Methods and Materials. Worcester, Massachusetts: Davis Publications, Inc. 
• Gross, Kenneth (2011). Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-30958-3. 
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• Sinclair, Anita (1995). The Puppetry Handbook. Richmond, Victoria, Australia: Richard Lee Publishing. ISBN 0-646-39063-5. 
• Suib, Leonard; Muriel Broadman (1975). Marionettes Onstage!. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. ISBN 0-06-014166-2.