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Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan / David L. Howell.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howell, David L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ainu--Ethnic identity.
- Ainu.
- Japan--Civilization--19th century.
- Japan.
- Japan--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 from one another, such as samurai warriors from commoners, and commoners from outcasts.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612759291
- 9781282759299
- 1282759299
- 9780520930872
- 0520930878
- 9781597346320
- 1597346322
- OCLC:
- 475927824
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