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Okinawan ubung and ubung udui
Journal of the Association of Graduate Dance Ethnologists • 4 • Published In 1980 • Pages: 16-24
By: Combs, Jo Anne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is based on interviews with four guest artist teachers who came to the University of Hawaii to teach Okinawan music and dance. Combs discusses one form of folk dance, called EISA, which is performed only during the All-Souls Festival (UBANG). It involves four groups of dancers and drummers who travel from house to house performing in people's yards. The next day the dance is performed in the village square. The dance involves precise movements and timing. The object of the dance is to please the ancestors and demonstrate village unity. Some of the EISA dances include a comic figure and incorporate modern embellishments.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dance
- Cult of the dead
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okinawans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hawaii, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Jo Anne Combs
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80649473
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ryukyuans