Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 262 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520240855
Content:
In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism by which markers of polity, status, and civilization came together over the divide of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Howell illustrates how a short roster of malleable, explicitly superficial customs-hairstyle, clothing, and personal names- served to distinguish the "civilized" realm of the Japanese from the "barbarian" realm of the Ainu in the Tokugawa era. Within the core polity, moreover, these same customs distinguished members of different social status groups from
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Geography of Status; 3. Status and the Politics of the Quotidian; 4. Violence and the Abolition of Outcaste Status; 5. Ainu Identity and the Early Modern State; 6. The Geography of Civilization; 7. Civilization and Enlightenment; 8. Ainu Identity and the Meiji State; Epilogue: Modernity and Ethnicity; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520240858
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Language:
English
