Identity and Resistance in Okinawa
Author:   Matthew Allen
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:  

9780742517141


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 April 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Identity and Resistance in Okinawa


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The keystone of U.S. security in East Asia, Okinawa is a troubled symbol of resistance and identity. In this perceptive ethnography, Matthew Allen draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and historical research to provide an original exploration of identity construction. The author argues that identity in Okinawa is multi-vocal, ambivalent, and still very much under construction. With its interdisciplinary focus, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians alike will find this book an important source for understanding broad questions of identity formation in the contexts of national, ethnic, cultural, historical and economic experience. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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Author:   Matthew Allen
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9780742517141


ISBN 10:   0742517144
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 April 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: Memory, Locality, and History Chapter 2 Wolves and Tigers: Remembering the Kumejima Massacres Chapter 3 Locality and Diaspora on Kumejima Chapter 4 Dialect and Dialectics Chapter 5 Educating Society Part 6 Part II: Mental Health, Shamanism, and Identity Chapter 7 When Spirits Attack: Shamanism, Psychiatry, and Schizophrenia Chapter 8 The Unsuccessful Shaman's Apprentice Chapter 9 The Akebono-kai: Stigma and Identity Part 10 Part III: Regionalism and Identity Chapter 11 Selling Kume to Japan: Tourism as the last Resort Chapter 13 Glossary Chapter 13 Confusing the Issues Chapter 14 Interviews Chapter 15 List of Illustrations Chapter 16 Index

Reviews

A pleasure to read...An important voice in the discourse on Okinawa. The author deserves special credit for his original and innovative approach towards Okinawan studies. H-Asia The best English-language study to date in depicting the diversity and complexity within Japan's southernmost prefecture. Journal Of Japanese Studies Timely and interesting. Bulletin Of The School Of Oriental and Africain Studies Allen has set an innovative methodological agenda...[A] fine ethnographic narrative filled with vivid descriptions. An enjoyable read. Monumenta Nipponica


A pleasure to read...An important voice in the discourse on Okinawa. The author deserves special credit for his original and innovative approach towards Okinawan studies. H-Asia The best English-language study to date in depicting the diversity and complexity within Japan's southernmost prefecture. Journal Of Japanese Studies Timely and interesting. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Allen has set an innovative methodological agenda...[A] fine ethnographic narrative filled with vivid descriptions. An enjoyable read. Monumenta Nipponica


Author Information

Matthew Allen is senior lecturer in Japanese history in the School of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland.

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