Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body

Fushiki Kaori is a professor at the Department of Humanities, Taisho University, Japan. Her expertise lies in the fields of cultural anthropology, organology, ethnomusicology, theatre studies and religious studies. Her research interests cover the performing arts in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, especially Balinese gamelan and glove puppet theatre (wayang potehi) and Chinese rituals related with those performing arts in Singapore. She has published extensively on these topics. Her publications, as a co-editor, include Potehi: Glove puppet theatre in Southeast Asia and Taiwan (2016). She is currently undertaking research on the untold and unseen skills and knowledge of performance acts and the making of musical instruments as a member of a cultural anthropology research group that focuses on the acquisition and developmental processes associated with skills, proficiency and tacit knowledge.