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When the bones speak : the living, the dead, and the sacrifice of contemporary Okinawa / Christopher T. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Christopher T., 1961- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nelson, Christopher T., 1961-.
- Nelson, Christopher T.
- Collective memory--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Collective memory.
- Death--Social aspects--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Death.
- Psychic trauma--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- Psychic trauma.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Okinawa-ken (Japan)--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Okinawa-ken (Japan).
- Okinawa-ken (Japan)--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Living, the dead, and the sacrifice of contemporary Okinawa
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson considers the ways ordinary Okinawans, haunted by memories of the past, have struggled to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. Through the lens of his own US Marine training and ethnographic research completed over twenty-five years in the region, Nelson asks about sacrifice and residual trauma from events intended to preserve the imperial institution and Japanese state. Nelson's focus on Okinawa, a site of mass atrocities, and its inhabitants, demonstrates how memories of past sacrifices and exploitation connect with modern, everyday lives. Interrogating the intersection of past and present temporalities and future possibilities, Nelson amplifies the voices of people-living and dead, visible and immaterial-entangled in webs of power beyond their control"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Opening a Rift in the Everyday
- Iphigenia in the China Sea: Confronting the Memory of Sacrifice
- Unburying the Future: Okamoto Tarō and the Dialectics of Sacrifice
- From Among the Dead: The Transformation of Sacrifice.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nelson, Christopher T., 1961- When the bones speak.
- ISBN:
- 9781478094388
- 1478094389
- 9781478060970
- 1478060972
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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