Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Style; Introduction: Contemporary Self-Craft and Gendered Practices; 1: Indigenous Modernity; 2: Contemporary Practice and Contested Heritage; 3: The Clamor of Our Blood: The Politics of Belonging and Modern Ainu Identity; 4: The "Gendering of Ethnicity" in Ainu Society; COLOR PLATES; 5: Embodied Knowledge; 6: In Lieu of Repatriation; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; References; Index; Back Cover.
Summary
The author synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organizing to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and how they also fashion lived connections to ancestral values and lifestyles.
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