L´ identité okinawanaise vue à travers le corps dans les danses empreintes d´éléments combatifs

Title:

L´ identité okinawanaise vue à travers le corps dans les danses empreintes d´éléments combatifs

Creator:

Juster, Jean-Charles

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:00657900-4547-4fd2-934f-52cbd71cad70
uuid:00657900-4547-4fd2-934f-52cbd71cad70

Subject:

Okinawa-Ryûkyû-identity, ethnochoreology, dances, and martial arts

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

The question of Okinawan identity is a specific subject in contemporary Japan. In order to study it, the present article addresses the use of the body in Okinawan society, since dances and martial arts, which are important cultural points on these islands, are strongly connected to it. Firstly, I explain that the dances which feature martial arts moves have different functions according to the place to which they originate. In the rural environment, they are thought of as a distinctive cultural production, whereas in the cities, they are used to counter discrimination from central Japan. After this, I develop an analysis of these dances as techniques of the body and their educational significance in the hamlets, relying on the system of authority and imitation, all of which share a range of sociological and psychological aspects. In the development, emphazise the values conveyed by the body: some dances belong to classical culture and others to folk tradition.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Archiv orientální | 2009 Volume:77 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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