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.

, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

When the bones speak

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Opening a Rift in the Everyday

2. Iphigenia in the China Sea

3. Unburying the Future

4. From Among the Dead

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

1-4780-9438-9

OCLC:

1521259721