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9780824825300

Okinawan Diaspora

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  • ISBN13:

    9780824825300

  • ISBN10:

    0824825306

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

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Summary

The essays in this volume commemorate the diasporic experiences of Okinawans within the geopolitical context of East Asia.

Author Biography

Ronald Y. Nakasone, Buddhist cleric and scholar, teaches at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and has lectured at Ryukoku University, Japan, and Mahidol University, Thailand

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration and Conventions ix
Preface xi
Part I Introduction
``An Impossible Possibility''
3(23)
Ronald Y. Nakasone
Theorizing on the Okinawan Diaspora
26(18)
Robert K. Arakaki
Okinawa in the Matrix of Pacific Ocean Culture
44(13)
Hokama Shuzen
Part II Journeys
The ``Japanese'' of Micronesia: Okinawans in the Nan'yo Islands
57(14)
Tomiyama Ichiro
``The Other Japanese'': Okinawan Immigrants to the Philippines, 1903-1941
71(19)
Edith M. Kaneshiro
Japanese Latin American Internment from an Okinawan Perspective
90(22)
Wesley Ueunten
Colonialism and Nationalism: The View from Okinawa
112(8)
Nomura Koya
Eissa: Identities and Dances of Okinawan Diasporic Experiences
120(10)
Shirota Chika
Hawai`i Uchinachu and Okinawa: Uchinanchu Spirit and the Formation of a Transnational Identity
130(12)
Arakaki Makoto
Agari-umaai: An Okinawan Pilgrimage
142(15)
Ronald Y. Nakasone
Appendix 157(6)
Glossary 163(6)
References 169(22)
List of Contributors 191(4)
Index 195

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