Beyond Ainu Studies : : Changing Academic and Public Perspectives / / ed. by Mark James Hudson, Mark K. Watson, ann-elise lewallen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Howell, David L.,; Hudson, Mark J.,; Kanako, Uzawa,; Kayo, Sunazawa,; Koji, Deriha,; Lewallen, Ann-elise,; Morris-Suzuki, Tessa,; Nobuko, Tsuda,; Refsing, Kirsten,; Stevens, Georgina,; Watson, Mark K.,; Ölschleger, Hans Dieter,
• HerausgeberIn: Hudson, Mark James,; Watson, Mark K.,; lewallen, ann-elise,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 14 illustrations

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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