Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives 9780824839185
In 2008, 140 years after it had annexed Ainu lands, the Japanese government shocked observers by finally recognizing Ain
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Table of contents :
contents
preface
1. Beyond Ainu Studies An Introduction
Theme ONE: Representation / Objectification
2 .Ainu Ethnography Historical Representations in the West
3. Tourists, Anthropologists, and Visions of Indigenous Society in Japan
Theme Two: New Critical Responses
4. Tokyo Ainu and the Urban Indigenous Experience
5 .Charanke
6 .As a Child of Ainu
Theme three :Academic Disciplines and Understandings of Ainu
7 .Is Ainu History Japanese History?
8. Ainu and Hunter-Gatherer Studies
9. Trade and the Paradigm Shift in Research on Ainu Hunting Practices
Theme four: The Discourse of Culturalism
10. Our Ancestors’ Handprints The Evolution of Ainu Women’s Clothing Culture
11. The Gender of Cloth Ainu Women and Cultural Revitalization
12 .From Collecting Words to Writing Grammars A Brief History of Ainu Linguistics
13 .The Ainu, Law, and Legal Mobilization, 1984–2009
References
Contributors
Index
contents
preface
1. Beyond Ainu Studies An Introduction
Theme ONE: Representation / Objectification
2 .Ainu Ethnography Historical Representations in the West
3. Tourists, Anthropologists, and Visions of Indigenous Society in Japan
Theme Two: New Critical Responses
4. Tokyo Ainu and the Urban Indigenous Experience
5 .Charanke
6 .As a Child of Ainu
Theme three :Academic Disciplines and Understandings of Ainu
7 .Is Ainu History Japanese History?
8. Ainu and Hunter-Gatherer Studies
9. Trade and the Paradigm Shift in Research on Ainu Hunting Practices
Theme four: The Discourse of Culturalism
10. Our Ancestors’ Handprints The Evolution of Ainu Women’s Clothing Culture
11. The Gender of Cloth Ainu Women and Cultural Revitalization
12 .From Collecting Words to Writing Grammars A Brief History of Ainu Linguistics
13 .The Ainu, Law, and Legal Mobilization, 1984–2009
References
Contributors
Index
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- Mark James Hudson (editor)
- ann-elise lewallen (editor)
- Mark K. Watson (editor)
