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Dancing with the dead : memory, performance, and everyday life in postwar Okinawa / Christopher T. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Christopher T., 1961-
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Performing arts.
- Arts and history--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Arts and history.
- Ethnology--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Ethnology.
- Okinawa-ken (Japan)--History--20th century.
- Okinawa-ken (Japan).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ethnography that explores the interrelationship among wartime trauma, memory, and social life through forms of ritual and popular performance in postwar Okinawa.
- Contents:
- Fujiki Hayato, the storyteller
- The heritage of his times: Teruya Rinsuke and ethnographic storytelling
- The classroom of the everyday: Fujiki Hayato and his "Shima to asobimanabu" seminar
- In a samurai village
- Dances of memory, dances of oblivion
- In the darkness of the lived moment.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923418
- 9781282923416
- 1282923412
- 9780822390077
- 0822390078
- OCLC:
- 308707048
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