Dancing with the Dead
Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2008
288 pages
978-0-8223-9007-7 (ISBN)
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Ethnography that explores the interrelationship among wartime trauma, memory, and social life through forms of ritual and popular performance in postwar Okinawa.
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Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
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Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
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Duke University Press
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Christopher T. Nelson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Battlefield of Memory 1
1. Fujiki Hayato: The Storyteller 27
2. The Heritage of His Times: Teruya Rinsuke and Ethnographic Storytelling 58
3. The Classroom of the Everyday: Fujiki Hayato and His "Shima to Asobimanabu" Seminar 89
4. In a Samurai Village 126
5. Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion 171
Conclusion: In the Darkness of the Lived Moment 215
Notes 221
Bibliography 253
Index 263
Introduction: The Battlefield of Memory 1
1. Fujiki Hayato: The Storyteller 27
2. The Heritage of His Times: Teruya Rinsuke and Ethnographic Storytelling 58
3. The Classroom of the Everyday: Fujiki Hayato and His "Shima to Asobimanabu" Seminar 89
4. In a Samurai Village 126
5. Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion 171
Conclusion: In the Darkness of the Lived Moment 215
Notes 221
Bibliography 253
Index 263
