1st Edition
Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics
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 Icharpa 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
Biography
Mark Watson is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
'This is an important and timely contribution. Only as recently as 2009 the Japanese government for the first time recognized Ainu Indigeneity for those residing outside of Hokkaido. It is a story with much more to follow and this book provides an original perspective from which to understand the shared human and historical experiences that are likely to direct urban Indigenous policy and lives in Japan and beyond.' – Pamela J. Asquith, University of Alberta, Canada
'Watson ... offer(s) perspectives that have been lacking in the literature on diversity in Japan.' - Robert Moorehead, Ritsumeikan University, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
The book is recommended as an important contribution to Ainu studies, to the developing paradigm of multiculturalism in Japan and addresses with unique eloquence the issue of diaspora in the urban context. - John C. MAHER, International Christian University
