TY  - GEN
T1  - Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan
A1  - Howell, David L.
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm56733267
AB  - 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
CN  - DS822.25 .H68 2005eb
SN  - 9780520930872
SN  - 0520930878
SN  - 1597346322
SN  - 9781597346320
SN  - 1282759299
SN  - 9781282759299
SN  - 9786612759291
SN  - 6612759291
SN  - 9780520240858
SN  - 0520240855
KW  - Japan : Civilization : 19th century.
KW  - Japan : Social conditions : 19th century.
KW  - Ainu : Ethnic identity.
KW  - Aïnou (Peuple d'Asie) : Identité ethnique.
KW  - Japon : Civilisation : 19e siècle.
KW  - Japon : Conditions sociales : 19e siècle.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - HISTORY : Asia : General.
KW  - Ainu : Ethnic identity
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Japan
KW  - Ethnische Identität
KW  - Sozialstatus
KW  - Ainu.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - ainu culture.
KW  - ainu.
KW  - anthropology.
KW  - assimilation.
KW  - barbarian.
KW  - barbarism.
KW  - bunka.
KW  - buraku.
KW  - burakumin.
KW  - burakushi.
KW  - civilization.
KW  - class.
KW  - commoner.
KW  - cultural difference.
KW  - custom.
KW  - daimyo.
KW  - early modern japan.
KW  - east asia.
KW  - folk practices.
KW  - folk tradition.
KW  - history.
KW  - japan.
KW  - japanese history.
KW  - meiji restoration.
KW  - nation.
KW  - national identity.
KW  - nonfiction.
KW  - othering.
KW  - outcast.
KW  - peasant.
KW  - polity.
KW  - race.
KW  - samurai.
KW  - social status.
KW  - status.
KW  - tokugawa.
ER  -