02932nam 2200661Ia 450 991045044440332120200520144314.01-282-75929-997866127592910-520-93087-81-59734-632-210.1525/9780520930872(CKB)1000000000024216(EBL)223370(OCoLC)475927824(SSID)ssj0000161906(PQKBManifestationID)11167135(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161906(PQKBWorkID)10198609(PQKB)11731106(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055972(MiAaPQ)EBC223370(OCoLC)56733267(MdBmJHUP)muse30507(DE-B1597)520279(DE-B1597)9780520930872(Au-PeEL)EBL223370(CaPaEBR)ebr10068582(CaONFJC)MIL275929(EXLCZ)99100000000002421620040421d2005 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrGeographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan[electronic resource] /David L. HowellBerkeley, Calif. University of California Press20051 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24085-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.AinuEthnic identityJapanCivilization19th centuryJapanSocial conditions19th centuryElectronic books.AinuEthnic identity.306/.0952/09034Howell David L266168MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450444403321Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan1241308UNINA