Muay Thai
Wai Khru
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From a
performative aspect, the Wai Khru and Ram Muay can be categorized as ritual.
Richard Schechner, an early performance studies scholar, alleges that all
performance “consists of twice-behaved, coded, transmittable behaviors. This
twice-behaved behavior is generated by interactions between ritual and
performance. In fact, one definition of performance is: Ritualized behavior
conditioned and/or permeated by play.” (2006, 52) On the other side of
ritual is play. Ritual is much the same as it sounds. Examples of ritual
outside of the Wai Khru and Ram Muay, other events such as weddings,
funerals, church services, and even sporting events can be viewed as ritual.
The example of sports would include Muay Thai fighting, and thereby include
the Wai Khru and Ram Muay, which can bridge the gap between Play and Ritual
given that there are hundreds of variations of the Wai Khru and Ram Muay and
at least a minor aspect of pomp and preening causing slight variations in
the ritual of Wai Khru and Ram Muay.
Kris
Noteboom.
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