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Japan’s Outcaste Abolition: The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State book cover

1st Edition

Japan’s Outcaste Abolition The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

By Noah Y. McCormack Copyright 2013
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
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The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups ( mibun ). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and clarifying existing customary divisions between warriors, peasants, artisans, and merchants.... Read more

1. Outcaste Status after Equality  2. A Status Society  3. Outcaste Status  4. Rationality, Enlightenment and Outcaste Abolition  5. Defiled Bloodlines  6. Foreign Origins as Stigma  7. The Stigma of Place  8. Assimilation as Liberation  9. Conclusion

Biography

Noah Y. McCormack is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan.

"the work provides a compelling examination of the role of domestic and international politics in changing Japan’s status hierarchy, particularly for those on the margins of society. It would be a valuable resource not just for historical studies of marginality, but for anyone, from advanced undergraduates on, in understanding how policies that are derived from creating modern nation state (such as ideologies of commonality and equality) are intertwined with changing beliefs and practices." Christopher Bondy, International Christian University, Social Science Japan Journal

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