Description: An ethnographic portrayal of the people of the southern Ryukyu Islands and their world. Based on extensive original research, including participant observation, this study will be of great interest to the general anthropological readership as well as to Asian studies scholars.
Review Quotes:
'Arne Røkkum has produced a complex, nuanced, and carefully argued ethnography on nature, ritual, society, and symbolism in the Ryukyu Islands, specifically, in this case, Yonaguni Island...There are some wonderful vignettes in this ethnography and some well-constructed analytical frames of reference...it is informative, well researched, and exposes a level of detailed observation and analysis rarely found in the English-language literature on the Ryukyus.' - Matthew Allen, Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 33