Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa - Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society - Christopher T. Nelson - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822343493 - December 12, 2008
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Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa - Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society


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Examines how Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. This title analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life.


288 pages, 16 b&w photos

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 12, 2008
ISBN13 9780822343493
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 150 × 230 × 30 mm   ·   562 g
Language English  

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