Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan /
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, explic...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
2005.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp6vw |
| Sumari: | 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 fro |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520930872 0520930878 1597346322 9781597346320 1282759299 9781282759299 9786612759291 6612759291 9780520240858 0520240855 |