Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa by Christopher Nelson, Christopher T. Nelson

Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa

Christopher Nelson, Christopher T. Nelson

288 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

history reflective medium-paced

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Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of ...

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