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Title Multicultural Japan : palaeolithic to postmodern / edited by Donald Denoon ... [and others] ; with an introduction by Gavan McCormack
Edition First paperback edition
Published Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description viii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Series Contemporary Japanese society.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Archaeology and Identity: 1. The Japanese as an Asia-Pacific population Katayama Kazumichi -- 2. North Kyushu creole: a language-contact model for the origins of Japanese John C. Maher -- 3. Beyond ethnicity and emergence in Japanese archaeology Simon Kaner -- 4. Archaeology and Japanese identity Clare Fawcett -- Part II. Centre and Periphery: 5. A descent into the past: the frontier in the construction of Japanese history Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- 6. The place of Okinawa in Japanese historical identity Richard Pearson -- 7. Ainu Moshir and Yaponesia: Ainu and Okinawan identities in contemporary Japan Hanazaki Kohei -- Part III. Contact with the Outside: 8. Some reflections on identity formation in East Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Derek Massarella -- 9. Siam and Japan in pre-modern times: a note on mutual images Ishii Yoneo -- 10. Indonesia under the 'Greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere' Goto Ken'ichi -- 11. Japanese army internment policies for enemy civilians during the Asia-Pacific war Utsumi Aiko -- Part IV. The Japanese Family: 12. Modern patriarchy and the formation of the Japanese nation state Ueno Chizuko -- 13. The modern Japanese family system: a unique or universal? Nishikawa Yuko -- Part V. Culture and Ideology: 14. Emperor, race and commoners Amino Yoshihiko -- 15. Two interpretations of Japanese culture Nishikawa Nagao -- 16. Kokusaika: impediments in Japan's deep structure Gavan McCormack -- Afterword: diversity and identity in the twenty-first century Mark Hudson and Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Summary This text challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Offering historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, the book ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. All editors from ANU
This text challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Offering historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, the book ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan
Notes First published 1996
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject National characteristics, Japanese.
Archaeology -- Japan.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069361
Japan -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069426
Japan -- Civilization -- Foreign influences http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115616 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Denoon, Donald.
LC no. 2001043166
ISBN 0521003628 :