03911nam 2201081Ia 450 991078338900332120230221195221.01-282-75929-997866127592910-520-93087-81-59734-632-210.1525/9780520930872(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 centuryainu culture.ainu.anthropology.assimilation.barbarian.barbarism.bunka.buraku.burakumin.burakushi.civilization.class.commoner.cultural difference.custom.daimyo.early modern japan.east asia.folk practices.folk tradition.history.japan.japanese history.meiji restoration.nation.national identity.nonfiction.othering.outcast.peasant.polity.race.samurai.social status.status.tokugawa.AinuEthnic identity.306/.0952/09034Howell David L(David Luke),1959-1279445MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783389003321Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan3672673UNINA