UID:
almafu_9960720960002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 290 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-898823-97-9
Uniform Title:
Nyūmon hisabetsu buraku no rekishi.
Content:
"At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social and state discrimination against the Dōwa communities, otherwise known as Buraku. Principally identified with 'unclean' work linked to the leather industry and Japan's abbatoirs and meat processing factories, their resulting marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue. Buraku studies, once largely ignored within Japan's academia and by scholarly publishers, have developed considerably in the first decades of the twenty-first century, as the extensive bibliography provided here clearly demonstrates, thereby ensuring that the authors of the present study (2016), translated by the Oxford scholar Ian Neary, have been able to access the most recent data. Because of its importance as the first broadly-based Buraku history, a wider readership was always the authors' principal focus. Yet, it also provides a valuable source book for further study by those wishing to develop their knowledge about the subject from an informed base. This history of the Buraku communities and their antecedents is the first such study to be published in English"--
Note:
Part I -- Establishment of the Japanese State and the formation and transformation of status -- Formation of the Risuryō State structure and the status system -- Formation and development of society in the Middle Ages and the lifestyle and culture of discriminated people -- Establishment of Kawata and Chōri status - the Buraku of the early modern period -- Discriminated groups of the early modern period -- Development of early modern (Kinsei) society and discriminated people -- Dislocation and collapse of early modern society and discriminated people -- Part II -- What was the 'Buraku Problem' in the modern period? -- Signs of discrimination invented -- Discriminated Buraku are 'discovered' -- Seeking unification of the empire -- Rice riots and racial equality -- Liberation by our own efforts -- Liberation or conciliation -- 'National unity' and its contradictions -- Post-war reforms and the re-launch of the Buraku Liberation Movement -- Making citizens: Becoming citizens -- Absorption and exclusion into 'civil society' -- Looking at the Buraku problem now.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-898823-96-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781898823971
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781898823971/type/BOOK
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