Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0520240855
ISBN-13
9780520240858
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 7th, 2005
Print length
271 Pages
Weight
592 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.70 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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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 from one another, such as samurai warriors from commoners, and commoners from outcasts.
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