Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
David L. Howell.
Bok Engelsk 2005 David Luke. Howell,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berkeley, Calif. : : University of California Press, , 2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (272 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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.. - 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, explicitly superficial customs-hairstyle, clothing, and personal names- served to distinguish the ""civilized"" realm of the Japanese from the ""barbarian"" realm of the Ainu in the Tokugawa era. Within the core polity, moreover, these same customs distinguished members of different social status groups f
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| Emner | Ainu - Ethnic identity.
Japan historie etnisk identitet geografi 1800-tallet etnisitet Ainu Hokkaido Meiji vold status politikk |
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| ISBN | 0520240855
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