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Dancing with the dead : memory, performance, and everyday life in postwar Okinawa

Title
Dancing with the dead : memory, performance, and everyday life in postwar Okinawa / Christopher Nelson.
Author
Nelson, Christopher T., 1961-
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Description
ix, 277 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Asia-Pacific
Uniform Title
Asia-Pacific.
Subject
  • Performing arts > Okinawa-ken
  • Arts and history > Okinawa-ken
  • Ethnology > Okinawa-ken
  • Okinawa-ken (Japan) > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-262) and index.
Contents
Introduction. The battlefield of memory -- 1. Fujiki Hayato the storyteller -- 2. The heritageof his times: Teruya Rinsuke and ethnographic storytelling -- 3. The classroom of the everyday: Fujiki Hayatoand his "shima to asobimanabu" seminar -- 4. In a samurai village -- 5. Dances of memory, dances of oblivion -- Conclusion: In the darkness of the lived moment.
ISBN
  • 9780822343493 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822343495 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822343714 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822343711 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008032020
OCLC
  • ocn209334965
  • 209334965
  • SCSB-5450092
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries