Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa

by Christopher Nelson and Christopher T. Nelson

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Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable devastation of the Pacific War, and a long American...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822343711

ISBN13:9780822343714

Release Date:December 2008

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Cultural Customs & Traditions History Social Science Social Sciences

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