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Japan's outcaste abolition : the struggle for national inclusion and the making of the modern state / Noah Y. McCormack.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McCormack, Noah Y., author.
Series:
Asia's Transformations
Asia's transformations ; 36
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Marginality, Social--Japan--History.
Marginality, Social.
Outcasts--Japan--History.
Outcasts.
Social status--Japan--History.
Social status.
Social movements--Japan--History.
Social movements.
Assimilation (Sociology)--Japan--History.
Assimilation (Sociology).
Equality--Japan--History.
Equality.
Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Japan.
Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Japan--Social conditions--1600-1868.
Japan--Social conditions--1868-1912.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and clarifying existing customary divisions between warriors, peasants, artisans, and merchants. Subsequently, during the two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule, status laws backed by coercive force worked to limit social mobility between groups and regulate relations between people of dif
Contents:
Outcaste status after equality
A status society
Outcaste status
Rationality, enlightenment and outcaste abolition
Defiled bloodlines
Foreign origins as stigma
The stigma of place
Assimilation as liberation.
Notes:
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
ISBN:
1-136-28367-6
1-283-58660-6
9786613899057
0-203-11274-1
1-136-28368-4
9780203112748
OCLC:
810082341

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