When the Bones Speak
The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa
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2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3196-3 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3196-3 (ISBN)
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.
Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices - living and dead, visible and immaterial - that exert powerful forces often beyond their control. In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson examines the myriad ways contemporary Okinawans experience, remember, and contest sacrifice. He attends to the voices of those who find their vocation in service to others, from shamans, fortune-tellers, laborers, and artists to dead soldiers, war survivors, antiwar activists, and Christian missionaries. Nelson shows how the memories of past sacrifices, atrocities, and exploitation as well as residual trauma shape modern life in Okinawa and the possibility and hope for creative action grounded in the everyday. Offering new understandings of colonial transformation, wartime violence, and military occupation, Nelson writes from the intersection of temporalities and possibilities, where the hard finality of the past may be broken open to reveal a “not yet” that has always remained just beyond reach.
Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices - living and dead, visible and immaterial - that exert powerful forces often beyond their control. In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson examines the myriad ways contemporary Okinawans experience, remember, and contest sacrifice. He attends to the voices of those who find their vocation in service to others, from shamans, fortune-tellers, laborers, and artists to dead soldiers, war survivors, antiwar activists, and Christian missionaries. Nelson shows how the memories of past sacrifices, atrocities, and exploitation as well as residual trauma shape modern life in Okinawa and the possibility and hope for creative action grounded in the everyday. Offering new understandings of colonial transformation, wartime violence, and military occupation, Nelson writes from the intersection of temporalities and possibilities, where the hard finality of the past may be broken open to reveal a “not yet” that has always remained just beyond reach.
Christopher T. Nelson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa, also published by Duke University Press.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Opening a Rift in the Everyday 13
2. Iphigenia in the China Sea: Confronting the Memory of Sacrifice 53
3. Unburying the Future: Okamoto Tarō and the Dialectics of Sacrifice 102
4. From Among the Dead: The Transformation of Sacrifice 157
Conclusion 231
Notes 237
Bibliography 263
Index 281
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.06.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 24 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-3196-4 / 1478031964 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-3196-3 / 9781478031963 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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