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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
2005.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp6vw |
Sommario:
- The geography of status
- Status and the politics of the quotidian
- Violence and the abolition of outcaste status
- Ainu identity and the early modern state
- The geography of civilization
- Civilization and enlightenment
- Ainu identity and the Meiji State.