The Return of Ainu: Cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan

by Sjoberg,Katarina

• ISBN13: 9783718654017
• ISBN10: 3718654016
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Theme and objectives	p. 1
Background and delimitation of the field of study	p. 6
The ethnographic encounter	p. 12
Location of field research and criteria for selection	p. 12
Participant observation	p. 17
Fieldwork approach	p. 21
Analytical framework	p. 26
Overview of previous work	p. 26
A functionalist view	p. 27
An alternative framework	p. 29
The process of change	p. 30
The necessity to incorporate the perspective of the Ainu	p. 31
Self-perception	p. 32
Advantages of employing an Ainu perspective	p. 33
The Ainu method of gaining public recognition of their situation	p. 34
Concepts and definitions: nationalism and culture	p. 35
Nation	p. 38
The Ainu view	p. 38
Minzoku and Moshir as "imagined political communities"	p. 39
The concept of culture	p. 40
Culture and ethnicity	p. 42
Ainu ethnicity	p. 44
Major strategies used by the Ainu for identification	p. 45
Assimilation, integration and acculturation	p. 48
The reconstruction of the "traditional" Ainu society	p. 50
The "traditional" Ainu way of life	p. 51
The cosmology of the Ainu in its relation to politics and religion	p. 56
Moshir identity	p. 61
Ainu polity: group arrangements, social and political	p. 67
Inheritance	p. 75
Iyomante	p. 76
Ainu attitudes to their Ainu heritage	p. 79
The Ainu in prehistoric and historic time	p. 84
Ainu origins	p. 85
Ancient Ainu people, territory and history as described in the historiography of the Wajin	p. 93
Location of Ainu former Honshu territories	p. 95
The fate of the Honshu Ainu	p. 97
Immigration to Ezo, causes and effects	p. 98
Trade	p. 100
The historical period preceding the colonization of Ezo: Hokkaido Kaitakushi	p. 102
The period before Ezo was annexed to Nihon proper	p. 104
The Basho system	p. 109
The integration of the Ainu people and their land	p. 116
The Meiji restoration: Hokkaido	p. 117
Research into the Ainu and their integration into the larger society	p. 118
Acculturation as a feature of the policy of assimilation	p. 120
The process of assimilation: the agrarian failure	p. 121
The process of assimilation: acculturation in general	p. 126
Utari Kyokai	p. 129
Tourism	p. 133
The Ainu as an international entity	p. 139
Mr Ainu	p. 144
Wajin attitudes	p. 144
Statistics	p. 152
Mr Shigeru Kayano	p. 154
Personal history	p. 155
Nibutani	p. 156
Data about Nibutani's Ainu population	p. 156
Nibutani village and its environment	p. 157
Nibutani's profile	p. 158
The Sho-gakko	p. 160
The Kodomo-beya	p. 160
Chise, Ainu-style houses	p. 161
The Shiryoka and the Tosho-kan	p. 164
The Geshuku-ya	p. 165
The Mise	p. 168
Discrimination against Nibutani's Ainu population	p. 171
Strategies of ethnicity	p. 174
The opinion of Kayano's Ainu antagonists	p. 177
Summary and conclusion	p. 181
Appendix A: A recent interpretation of the Moshir	p. 191
Appendix B: Mr Shigeru Kayano	p. 192
Appendix C: Glossary of Ainu and Japanese words and concepts	p. 194
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 216
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