| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japan -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Japan. |
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Japan -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Ainu -- Ethnic identity.
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Ainu -- Ethnic identity. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Howell, David L. Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005 0520240855 (DLC) 2004009387 (OCoLC)55019034 |
| ISBN |
9780520930872 (electronic book) |
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0520930878 (electronic book) |
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1597346322 |
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9781597346320 |
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9780520240858 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520240855 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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