I looked up puppetry today. I think my favorite would have to be japanese bunraku. It comes off as a dance between person and object with the object getting all the glory and the skilled person being completely overlooked by the audience. I also saw some marionettes scott radke http://www.scottradke.com/art.htm. He seems like a pretty morbid guy. Marionettes are controlled by strings above and rod puppets are held in one hand while manipulated rods move different parts of the body.