Dancing with the Dead

Informationen zum Autor Christopher T. Nelson Klappentext Ethnography that explores the interrelationship among wartime trauma, memory, and social life through forms of ritual and popular performance in postwar Okinawa. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Autorentext

Christopher T. Nelson

Klappentext

Ethnography that explores the interrelationship among wartime trauma, memory, and social life through forms of ritual and popular performance in postwar Okinawa.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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