Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-80755-1
- EAN: 9781317807551
- Produktnummer: 17031075
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 10'825 KB
- Abbildungen: 3 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
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Mark Watson is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
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