Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan /

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In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism by which markers of polity, status, and civilization came together over the divide of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Howell illustrates how a short roster of malleable, explic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Howell, David L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Ainu > Ethnic identity.
Aïnou (Peuple d'Asie) > Identité ethnique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Ainu > Ethnic identity
Civilization
Social conditions
Ethnische Identität
Sozialstatus
Japan > Civilization > 19th century.
Japan > Social conditions > 19th century.
Japon > Civilisation > 19e siècle.
Japon > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Japan
Ainu.
ainu culture.
ainu.
anthropology.
assimilation.
barbarian.
barbarism.
bunka.
buraku.
burakumin.
burakushi.
civilization.
class.
commoner.
cultural difference.
custom.
daimyo.
early modern japan.
east asia.
folk practices.
folk tradition.
history.
japan.
japanese history.
meiji restoration.
nation.
national identity.
nonfiction.
othering.
outcast.
peasant.
polity.
race.
samurai.
social status.
status.
tokugawa.
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Table of Contents:
  • The geography of status
  • Status and the politics of the quotidian
  • Violence and the abolition of outcaste status
  • Ainu identity and the early modern state
  • The geography of civilization
  • Civilization and enlightenment
  • Ainu identity and the Meiji State.

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