1. Introduction -- 2. Tales Told in a Dream -- 3. Biological Anthropology and the Dual-Structure Hypothesis -- 4. The Linguistic Archaeology of the Japanese Islands -- 5. From Jomon to Yayoi: The Archaeology of the First Japanese -- 6. An Emerging Synthesis? -- 7. Ethnicity and the Ancient State: A Core/Periphery Approach -- 8. The Unbroken Forest?: Ainu Ethnogenesis and the East Asian World-System -- 9. Japanese Ethnicity: Some Final Thoughts
Summary
In its examination of the processes of ethnogenesis -- the formation of ethnic groups -- Ruins of Identity offers an approach to ethnicity that differs fundamentally from that found in most Japanese scholarship and popular discourse
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-318) and index
Notes
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