When the Bones Speak
The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa
Abstract
Christopher T. Nelson examines how ordinary Okinawans have struggled to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism and how they experience and remember sacrifice.
Keywords
Sacrifice;Death;Value;Representation;Transformation;Debt;Indebtedness;Ethnography;Labor;Shamanism;Colonialism;Okinawa;Japan;Kuramoto So;Okamoto Taro;Okinawa Prefecture Museum;Gushiken Takamatsu;Higa ToyomitsuDOI
10.1215/9781478060970ISBN
9781478094388, 9781478028727, 9781478031963Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, 2025Imprint
Duke University Press BooksClassification
Anthropology
Ethnic studies
Religion and beliefs


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