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Author Watson, Mark K

Title Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo : Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (211 pages)
Series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Japan anthropology workshop series.
Contents 1. Introduction: Ainu in Tokyo -- 2. Diasporic Indigeneity: place, experience and translocalism -- 3. How far south is north? Questioning the regionalization of Ainu life -- 4. Cosmopolitan Tokyo Ainu history -- 5. Rera Cise: a home in the city -- 6. Ritual as moral practice: the icarpa and Ainu ceremonies in Tokyo -- 7. Making Ainu citizens: the politics of the CPA and everyday life -- 8. Conclusion: Tokyo Ainu and Urban Indigenous Studies -- 9. Epilogue: the end of a paradigm? 2008 and beyond
Summary 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
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Subject Ainu -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Ethnic identity
Ainu -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Social conditions
Ainu -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Politics and government
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ainu -- Ethnic identity.
Ainu -- Social conditions.
Ethnic relations.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Tokyo (Japan) -- Ethnic relations
Tokyo (Japan) -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135858
Subject Japan -- Tokyo.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317807568
1317807561