Agari-umaai: An Okinawan Pilgrimage

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. “Tinsagu nu Hana” Touch-Me-Not Flower 1
7. Sekai no Uchinaanchu: Okinawans Around the World 3
8. Theorizing on the Okinawan Diaspora 15
9. Hawai‘i in the Life and Thought of Ifa Fuyu , Father of Okinawan Studies 35
10. “The Other Japanese”: Okinawan Immigrants to the Philippines, 1903–1941 61
11. To Okinawa and Back Again: Life Stories of Okinawan Kibei Nisei in Hawai‘i 83
12. Japanese Latin American Internment from an Okinawan Perspective 97
13. Population Pressure as a Euphemism: The Rhetoric to Push Okinawan Emigration 121
14. Remembering the Battle of Okinawa: The Reversion Movement 137
15. Irei no Hi 2005, 2006, 2007: A Photo Essay 169
16. Women-Centered Diasporic Memories/ Dancing Melodies: Life Stories Across Post-War Okinawa, Hawai‘i, U. S. Military Bases 176
17. Who Is Uchinaanchu? 196
18. Hawai‘i Uchinaanchu and Okinawa: Uchinaanchu Spirit and the Formation of a Transnational Identity 198
19. Two Worlds: The Amerasian and the Okinawan 211
20. Linguistic Cultural Identity of Okinawans in the U. S. 231
21. Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan Language) Community in Hawai‘i: History and Current Developments 244
22. Agari-umaai: An Okinawan Pilgrimage 257
23. Ijun in Hawai‘i: Charisma in a Ryukyuan New Religion Overseas 273
24. Thought Bytes on Uchinaanchu Identity/ies 288
25. “Nuchi du Takara”: One’s Life is a Precious Treasure 292
26. “Tinsagu nu Hana”: The Flower of the Tinsagu Plant 293
27. Contributors 309