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Beyond Ainu studies : changing academic and public perspectives /

In 2008, 140 years after it had annexed Ainu lands, the Japanese government finally recognised Ainu as an Indigenous people. In this moment of political change, it was Uzawa Kanako, an Ainu activist, who signalled the necessity of moving beyond the historical legacy of 'Ainu studies'. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2014.
©2014
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond Ainu studies: an introduction / Mark K. Watson, ann-elise lewallen, and Mark J. Hudson
  • Ainu ethnography: historical representations in the West / Hans Dieter Ölschleger
  • Tourists, anthropologists, and visions of Indigenous society in Japan / Tessa Morris-Suzuki
  • Tokyo Ainu and the urban Indigenous experience / Mark K. Watson
  • Charanke / Uzawa Kanako
  • As a child of Ainu / Sunazawa Kayo
  • Is Ainu history Japanese history? / David L. Howell
  • Ainu and hunter-gatherer studies / Mark J. Hudson
  • Trade and the paradigm shift in research on Ainu hunting practices / Deriha Kōji
  • Our ancestors' handprints: the evolution of Ainu women's clothing culture / Tsuda Nobuko
  • The gender of cloth: Ainu women and cultural revitalization / ann-elise lewallen
  • From collecting words to writing grammars: a brief history of Ainu linguistics / Kirsten Refsing
  • The Ainu, law, and legal mobilization, 1984-2009 / Georgina Stevens.