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- Title
L'identité okinawanaise vue à travers le corps dans les danses empreintes d'éléments combatifs.
- Authors
Juster, Jean-Charles
- Abstract
The article presents an analysis of how the notion of identity of the inhabitants of Okinawa, one of Japan's southern prefectures consisting of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, appears through their bodies in the dances from this archipelago, related to martial arts. Topics include the place of the art of dance in the process of identity valuing of villages and cities, the educative aspect of body techniques and the symbolic details of the dances of Okinawa, and the place of the body when dances are based on a system mixing the concepts of territory, representation and authority.
- Subjects
JAPAN; OKINAWA-ken (Japan); JAPANESE dance; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept) in art; SOCIOLOGY of dance; MARTIAL arts; CIVILIZATION; HISTORY
- Publication
Archiv orientální (ArOr), 2009, Vol 77, Issue 3, p233
- ISSN
0044-8699
- Publication type
Article