Identity and Resistance in Okinawa - Allen, Matthew
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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.…mehr

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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.
Autorenporträt
Matthew Allen lives in Waynesville, Ohio and has served as pulpit minister for Cornerstone Church of Christ in Centerville (Dayton), Ohio since 2010 and has been preaching since 1995. Besides Matthew's local and domestic ministerial work, he has been blessed to do mission work in Ukraine, Canada, Belize, and Colombia. He has also directed several men's retreats around the country. Matthew is the owner of Spiritbuilding Publishers and is the lead host of Your Pathway Home, a live, interactive, worldwide webcast by Cornerstone Church of Christ.