Identity and resistance in Okinawa
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Identity and resistance in Okinawa
（Asian voices）
Rowman & Littlefield, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-257) and index
内容説明・目次
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: cloth ISBN 9780742517141
内容説明
The keystone of U.S. security in East Asia, Okinawa is a troubled symbol of resistance and identity. Ambivalence about the nature of Okinawan identity lies behind relations between Japan, the United States, and Okinawa today. Fully one-fifth of Okinawa's land is occupied by a foreign military power (the United States), and Okinawans carry a disproportionate responsibility for Japanese and U.S. security in the region. It thus figures prominently in the re-examination of key questions such as the nature of Japan, including the debate over Japanese "purity" and the nature of Japanese colonialism. Yet underneath the rhetoric of the "Okinawa problem" lies a core question: who are Okinawans? In contrast to approaches that homogenize Okinawan cultural discourse, this perceptive historical ethnography draws attention to the range of cultural and social practices that exist within contemporary Okinawa. Matthew Allen's narrative problematizes both the location of identity and the processes involved in negotiating identities within Okinawa. Using the community on Kumejima as a focus, the author describes how people create and modify multitextured and overlapping identities over the course of their lives. Allen explores memory, locality and history; mental health and shamanism; and regionalism and tourism in his richly nuanced study. His chapter on the Battle of Okinawa, which opens the book, is a riveting, fresh analysis of the battle in history and memory. His analysis of yuta (shamans) opens new terrain in rethinking the relationship between the traditional and the modern. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, Allen argues that identity in Okinawa is multivocal, 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.
目次
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
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: pbk ISBN 9780742517158
内容説明
The keystone of U.S. security in East Asia, Okinawa is a troubled symbol of resistance and identity. Ambivalence about the nature of Okinawan identity lies behind relations between Japan, the United States, and Okinawa today. Fully one-fifth of Okinawa's land is occupied by a foreign military power (the United States), and Okinawans carry a disproportionate responsibility for Japanese and U.S. security in the region. It thus figures prominently in the re-examination of key questions such as the nature of Japan, including the debate over Japanese 'purity' and the nature of Japanese colonialism. Yet underneath the rhetoric of the 'Okinawa problem' lies a core question: who are Okinawans? In contrast to approaches that homogenize Okinawan cultural discourse, this perceptive historical ethnography draws attention to the range of cultural and social practices that exist within contemporary Okinawa. Matthew Allen's narrative problematizes both the location of identity and the processes involved in negotiating identities within Okinawa. Using the community on Kumejima as a focus, the author describes how people create and modify multitextured and overlapping identities over the course of their lives. Allen explores memory, locality and history; mental health and shamanism; and regionalism and tourism in his richly nuanced study. His chapter on the Battle of Okinawa, which opens the book, is a riveting, fresh analysis of the battle in history and memory. His analysis of yuta (shamans) opens new terrain in rethinking the relationship between the traditional and the modern. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, Allen argues that identity in Okinawa is multivocal, 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.
目次
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
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