1st Edition
The Return of Ainu Cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan
By Katarina Sjoberg
Copyright 1993
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of the Ainu. The author’s main concern is the phenomenon called Fourth World Populations. After having read a book entitled Aiona by the French linguist Pierre Naert, she decided to investigate further the Ainu people and their integration into the Japanese nation state.
Chapter 1 Theme and objectives; Chapter 2 The ethnographic encounter; Chapter 3 Analytical framework; Chapter 4 The Reconstruction of the “Traditional” Ainu Society; Chapter 5 The Ainu in prehistoric and historic time; Chapter 6 The integration of the Ainu People and their land; Chapter 7 Mr Ainu; Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusion;
Biography
Katarina V. Sjoberg
