Identity and Resistance in Okinawa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742517158)

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.

Author: Matthew Allen
ISBN-10: 0742517152
ISBN-13: 9780742517158
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2002
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2002 pg. 686