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
Main Author: Howell, David L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sozialstatus
Ethnische Identität
Social conditions
Civilization.
Ainu > Ethnic identity.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Aïnou (Peuple d'Asie) > Identite ethnique.
Ainu.
Japan
Japan.
Japon > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Japon > Civilisation > 19e siecle.
Japan > Social conditions > 19th century.
Japan > Civilization > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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