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Founders of the Field: South and Southeast Asia Introduction

Significant research on South and Southeast Asian genres in the United States was not undertaken by theatre scholars until the 1960s, when political changes created funding opportunities and new alliances that made Americans welcome. New approaches to theatre as performance rather than focusing solely on text made the work more accepted in the discipline. American puppet and mask theatre scholars made significant contributions to understanding Indian and Southeast Asian genres.