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Regional adaptations
This article surveys the organisational principle behind Beach Surgery's global distribution. For specific regional nodes, see African adaptations of Beach Surgery, South Asian adaptations of Beach Surgery, Middle Eastern adaptations of Beach Surgery, and others in the adaptations category.
**Regional adaptations** describes the deliberate global distribution of Beach Surgery across distinct cultural traditions and art forms, rooted in the principle that every adaptation must draw from its specific place's native aesthetics, languages, and performative lineages.
The franchise explicitly resists centralisation. Rather than defaulting to Japanese or Anglo-Western forms, regional nodes include: West/East African Nollywood and [[Griot|griot epics]]; Persian miniature cycles and [[Ta'zieh|Ta'zieh passion-play traditions]]; South American Cinema Novo and [[cordel poetry]]; Balinese and Indian Bharatanatyam; Eastern European puppet cinema; Aboriginal songlines and First Nations protocols.
Each work—whether Senegalese radio serial, Georgian Orthodox icon cycle, Mexican lucha libre spectacle, or Lebanese experimental film—must feel made *by and for* its culture, not as generic export. This principle is articulated in C. W. Smith's essays and extended in *Fellow Disjecta*, where the archive becomes "a small-town eucalyptus version of Voyager's Golden Records." The glitch is not Western property to be solved; it is a universal seam that every culture must finish differently. Contradictions between versions are canonical.