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Ainu

Author : William W. Fitzhugh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ainu written by William W. Fitzhugh and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art, religious beliefs, mythology, and other aspects of the culture of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, now principally found in Hokkaido and smaller far northern islands. Hundreds of photographs and paintings, mostly in excellent quality color, show a wide variety of Ainu people, as well as clothing, jewelry, and various artifacts."--"Choice". "The most in-depth treatise available on Ainu prehistory, material culture, and ethnohistory." - "Library Journal".--Amazon.com (2001 ed, book description).

The Ainu of Japan

Author : Barbara Aoki Poisson
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822541769
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Ainu of Japan written by Barbara Aoki Poisson and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, modern and traditional cultural practices and economies, geographic background, and ongoing oppression and struggles of the Ainu of Japan.

Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo

Author : Mark K. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317807561
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo written by Mark K. Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, living in and around Tokyo; it is, therefore, about what has been pushed to the margins of history. Customarily, anthropologists and public officials have represented Ainu issues and political affairs as limited to rural pockets of Hokkaido. Today, however, a significant proportion of the Ainu people live in and around major cities on the main island of Honshu, particularly Tokyo. Based on extensive original ethnographic research, this book explores this largely unknown diasporic aspect of Ainu life and society. Drawing from debates on place-based rights and urban indigeneity in the twenty-first century, the book engages with the experiences and collective struggles of Tokyo Ainu in seeking to promote a better understanding of their cultural and political identity and sense of community in the city. Looking in-depth for the first time at the urban context of ritual performance, cultural transmission and the construction of places or ‘hubs’ of Ainu social activity, this book argues that recent government initiatives aimed at fostering a national Ainu policy will ultimately founder unless its architects are able to fully recognize the historical and social complexities of the urban Ainu experience.

Harukor

Author : Katsuichi Honda
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520210202
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Harukor written by Katsuichi Honda and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Ainu life over five hundred years ago, before Japanese invasions nearly killed off this indigenous society. No written records remain, other than Japanese observations, but the author has relied on surviving oral accounts and extensive study of anthropological and archeological discoveries to construct a representative woman's life story.

The Ainu

Author : Shigeru Kayano
Publisher : PeriplusEdition
ISBN 13 : 9780804835114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Ainu written by Shigeru Kayano and published by PeriplusEdition. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Ainu people of Hokkaido, Japan's original inhabitants, including their history, customs, clothing, food, habitats, and beliefs.

The Return of the Ainu

Author : Katarina Sjöberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9783718654017
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Ainu written by Katarina Sjöberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan

Author : Richard M. Siddle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113482680X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan by : Richard M. Siddle

Download or read book Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan written by Richard M. Siddle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan is the first major study to trace the outlines of Ainu history. It explores the ways in which competing versions of Ainu identity have been constructed and articulated, shedding light on the way modern relations between the Ainu and the Japanese have been shaped.

Handbook of the Ainu Language

Author : Anna Bugaeva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501502859
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Ainu Language written by Anna Bugaeva and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the verge of extinction. Ainu was not a written language, but it possesses a huge documented stock of oral literature, yet is significantly under-described in terms of grammar. It is the only non-Japonic language of Japan and is typologically different not only from Japanese but also from other Northeast Asian languages. Revolving around but not confined to its head-marking and polysynthetic character, Ainu manifests many typologically interesting phenomena, related in particular to the combinability of various voice markers and noun incorporation. Other interesting features of Ainu include vowel co-occurrence restrictions, a mixed system of expressing grammatical relations, which includes the elements of a rare tripartite alignment, nominal classification distinguishing common and locative nouns, elaborate possessive classes, verbal number, a rich four-term evidential system, and undergrammaticalized aspect, which are all explained in the volume. This handbook, the result of unprecedented cooperation of the leading experts of Ainu, will definitely help to increase the clarity of our understanding of Ainu and in a long-term perspective may provide answers to problems of human prehistory as well as open the field of Ainu studies to the world and attract many new students. Table of Contents Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Preface Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Introduction to the Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics Contributors Anna Bugaeva Introduction I Overview of Ainu studies Anna Bugaeva 1. Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim Juha Janhunen 2. Ainu ethnic origins Tomomi Satō 3. Major old documents of Ainu and some problems in the historical study of Ainu Alfred F. Majewicz 4. Ainu language Western records José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente 5. The Ainu language through time Alexander Vovin 6. Ainu elements in early Japonic Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Itsuji Tangiku 7. Language contact in the north Hiroshi Nakagawa and Mika Fukazawa 8. Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects Itsuji Tangiku 9. Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu dialects Shiho Endō 10. Ainu oral literature Osami Okuda 11. Meter in Ainu oral literature Tetsuhito Ōno 12. The history and current status of the Ainu language revival movement II Typologically interesting characteristics of the Ainu language Hidetoshi Shiraishi 13. Phonetics and phonology Hiroshi Nakagawa 14. Parts of Speech – with a focus on the classification of nouns Anna Bugaeva and Miki Kobayashi 15. Verbal valency Tomomi Satō 16. Noun incorporation Hiroshi Nakagawa 17. Verbal number Yasushige Takahashi 18. Aspect and evidentiality Yoshimi Yoshikawa 19. Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of Ainu III Appendices: Sample texts Anna Bugaeva 20. An uwepeker “Retar Katak, Kunne Katak” and kamuy yukar “Amamecikappo” narrated in the Chitose Hokkaido Ainu dialect by Ito Oda Elia dal Corso 21. “Meko Oyasi”, a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama Subject index

The Return of Ainu

Author : Katarina Sjoberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134351984
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Ainu written by Katarina Sjoberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of the Ainu. The author’s main concern is the phenomenon called Fourth World Populations. After having read a book entitled Aiona by the French linguist Pierre Naert, she decided to investigate further the Ainu people and their integration into the Japanese nation state.

Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu

Author : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521236362
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu written by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1981-08-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981, this book explores the issue of how a society understands human illness in the absence of a germ theory. This is done through an interpretation of the illness categories and healing practices of the Sakhalin Ainu, a hunting and gathering people resettled in Japan. The text illustrates how illnesses relate to the Ainu view of the universe and how their medical system is intimately interwoven with their moral cosmology and social networks. Even such minor ailments as headaches and boils are meticulously classified to mirror the classifications of such basic perceptual structures as space and time. With the Ainu medical system as an example, this book probes questions central to research in symbolic, medical and linguistic anthropology, structuralism, and the anthropology of women.

Ainu Spirits Singing

Author : Sarah M. Strong
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860128
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Ainu Spirits Singing written by Sarah M. Strong and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous peoples throughout the globe are custodians of a unique, priceless, and increasingly imperiled legacy of oral lore. Among them the Ainu, a people native to northeastern Asia, stand out for the exceptional scope and richness of their oral performance traditions. Yet despite this cultural wealth, nothing has appeared in English on the subject in over thirty years. Sarah Strong’s Ainu Spirits Singing breaks this decades-long silence with a nuanced study and English translation of Chiri Yukie’s Ainu Shin’yoshu, the first written transcription of Ainu oral narratives by an ethnic Ainu. The thirteen narratives in Chiri’s collection belong to the genre known as kamui yukar, said to be the most ancient performance form in the vast Ainu repertoire. In it, animals (and sometimes plants or other natural phenomena)—all regarded as spiritual beings (kamui) within the animate Ainu world—assume the role of narrator and tell stories about themselves. The first-person speakers include imposing animals such as the revered orca, the Hokkaido wolf, and Blakiston’s fish owl, as well as the more “humble” Hokkaido brown frog, snowshoe hare, and pearl mussel. Each has its own story and own signature refrain. Strong provides readers with an intimate and perceptive view of this extraordinary text. Along with critical contextual information about traditional Ainu society and its cultural assumptions, she brings forward pertinent information on the geography and natural history of the coastal southwestern Hokkaido region where the stories were originally performed. The result is a rich fusion of knowledge that allows the reader to feel at home within the animistic frame of reference of the narratives. Strong’s study also offers the first extended biography of Chiri Yukie (1903-1922) in English. The story of her life, and her untimely death at age nineteen, makes clear the harsh consequences for Chiri and her fellow Ainu of the Japanese colonization of Hokkaido and the Meiji and Taisho governments’ policies of assimilation. Chiri’s receipt of the narratives in the Horobetsu dialect from her grandmother and aunt (both traditional performers) and the fact that no native speakers of that dialect survive today make her work all the more significant. The book concludes with a full, integral translation of the text.

Beyond Ainu Studies

Author : Mark James Hudson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824836979
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Ainu Studies written by Mark James Hudson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, 140 years after it had annexed Ainu lands, the Japanese government shocked observers by finally recognizing Ainu as an Indigenous people. In this moment of unparalleled political change, it was Uzawa Kanako, a young Ainu activist, who signalled the necessity of moving beyond the historical legacy of “Ainu studies.” Mired in a colonial mindset of abject academic practices, Ainu Studies was an umbrella term for an approach that claimed scientific authority vis-à-vis Ainu, who became its research objects. As a result of this legacy, a latent sense of suspicion still hangs over the purposes and intentions of non-Ainu researchers. This major new volume seeks to re-address the role of academic scholarship in Ainu social, cultural, and political affairs. Placing Ainu firmly into current debates over Indigeneity, Beyond Ainu Studies provides a broad yet critical overview of the history and current status of Ainu research. With chapters from scholars as well as Ainu activists and artists, it addresses a range of topics including history, ethnography, linguistics, tourism, legal mobilization, hunter-gatherer studies, the Ainu diaspora, gender, and clothwork. In its ambition to reframe the question of Ainu research in light of political reforms that are transforming Ainu society today, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in Indigenous studies as well as in anthropology and Asian studies. Contributors: Misa Adele Honde, David L. Howell, Mark J. Hudson, Deriha Kōji, ann-elise lewallen, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Hans Dieter Ölschleger, Kirsten Refsing, Georgina Stevens, Sunazawa Kayo, Tsuda Nobuko, Uzawa Kanako, Mark K. Watson, Yūki Kōji.

The Ainu of Japan

Author : John Batchelor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Ainu of Japan written by John Batchelor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Conquest of Ainu Lands

Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520227361
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book The Conquest of Ainu Lands written by Brett L. Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Ainu in what is today far Northern Japan, showing the ecological and cultural processes by which this people's political, economic, and cultural autonomy eroded as they became an ethnic minority in the modern Japanese state.

A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

Author : Alexander Vovin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004099050
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu written by Alexander Vovin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph deals with the reconstruction of the Proto-Ainu language and the problems of its genetic affiliation.

Our Land Was a Forest

Author : Kayano Shigeru
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367317126
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Our Land Was a Forest written by Kayano Shigeru and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the author's own experiences and on stories passed down from generation to generation, the book chronicle

The Fabric of Indigeneity

Author : ann-elise lewallen
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826357369
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Fabric of Indigeneity written by ann-elise lewallen and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organizing to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and how they also fashion lived connections to ancestral values and lifestyles.