Puppetry

So school started and this sucks. First assignment of the year for drama is to research puppets. My group (Cindy, Kavita, and Shivani) was assigned to research puppetry in general. So I'm just going to go google puppets. This is what I have come up with:

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance which involves the manipulation of puppets. It is very ancient, and is believed to have originated 30,000 years BC.Puppetry takes many forms but they all share the process of animating inanimate performing objects. Puppetry is used in almost all human societies both as an entertainment – in performance – and ceremonially in rituals and celebrations such as carnivals.
Most puppetry involves storytelling. The impact of puppetry depends on the process of transformation of puppets, which has much in common with magic and with play. Thus puppetry can create complex and magical theatre with relatively small resources.

Also, a list of various types of puppetry:

Animatronics Robotic puppets. Read the full explanation
Blacklight Puppets seen using UV/blacklight.
Bunraku
Japanese rod puppets.
Caricature (portrait) puppets
Any puppet that looks like a real person.
Costume or body puppets
Puppets you can wear.
Finger puppets
Things you can put on your fingers.
Found puppets
See ‘object manipulation’.
Glove puppets
Puppets worn on the hand. Traditionally speaking ‘Punch and Judy’, not The Muppets.
Light curtain
A trick using lighting where the puppeteers are ‘invisible’, but the puppets aren’t.
Marionettes String puppets.
Marottes
A type of rod puppet.
Mouth puppets
Puppets that talk. Has subcategories, ‘muppet-type’, ’sock’, etc.
Muppet-type puppets
A type of mouth puppet usually in reference to the Jim Henson methodology.
Parade puppets
Large puppets used in parades.
People puppets
Another term for ‘muppet-type’, usually just for marketing and avoiding copyright infringement.
Rod puppets
Anything that uses rods.
Shadow puppets
Puppets where only the shadow is seen.
Shoulder puppets
A style of cable-control (rod) puppet, that sits on the shoulder.
Sock puppets
A form of mouth puppet using socks as the materials.
Table-top puppetry
Puppets that are small and performed on tables. Often known as ‘bunraku’.
Toy theatre
Puppets performed using small table-top model sets.
Ventriloquism
The art of making the puppet look like it’s doing its own talking.
Water puppetry
Vietnamese underwater puppetry.
Wayang Golek Javanese rod puppets.
Wayang Kulit
Javanese shadow puppets.
White light theatre
Puppetry performed with the puppeteers visible at all times.

I'm pretty sure the format for the list of puppets is messed up.