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Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...FITZHUGH and CHISATO 0. DUBREUIL (eds.), Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Washington...assembled to "broaden understanding about Ainu history, culture, and contemporary life...chapters that provide rich detail about Ainu traditions, folklore, and their place...
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Ainu submergence and emergence: human rights discourse and the expression of ethnicity in modern Japan.
Magazine article from: Southeast Review of Asian Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Ainu of northern Japan, long written off as a...reluctantly abandoned its long-held denial of Ainu claims as an indigenous group within a multicultural...state. However, it remains to be seen if Ainu ethnopolitics and aspirations will move beyond...
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The Return of the Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in Japan.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; Books on the Ainu people of Northern Japan are a rarity in...although in comparison with their numbers the Ainu have probably attracted more attention...micro-groups ever do. Most books on the Ainu in Western languages have dealt primarily...
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Survivor stories - Japan's Ainu seek help to preserve their native culture.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 4/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the longest distance to the powwow. The trio are Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan, whose...striking resemblance to that of American Indians. The Ainu trio, members of an Ainu rights organization, are concluding a one-week...
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Honda Katsuichi. Harukor: an Ainu Woman's Tale. Voices from Asia.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; HONDA KATSUICHI. Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale. Voices from Asia. Translated by Kyoko Selden...21020-4. The volume under review is a translation of Ainu minzoku [The Ainu People] (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1993) by the Japanese...
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A brief history of the Ainu.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 4/25/2001; ; 503 words
; ...about the exact origins of the aboriginal Ainu people, who differ ethnically and culturally...bodies and (for the men) dark beards, the Ainu (their word for "human") are believed...and South Sakhalin, now part of Russia. Ainu culture flourished in the 13th and 14th...
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Walker, Brett L. The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Walker, Brett L. The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese...interactions between the Japanese and the Ainu before Hokkaido was formally incorporated...Japanese gradually reduced the once autonomous Ainu to dependency. Walker provides a rich...
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JAPAN GIVES LEGAL NOD TO THE AINU GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZES THEM AS INDIGENOUS.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 5/9/1997; 554 words
; ...Mizoguchi Associated Press TOKYO -- Japan's Ainu people were recognized as the country...setting court ruling in March favoring Ainu land rights and Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's comments recognizing the Ainu as Japan's indigenous people. ``For...
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Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. (Book Reviews: Japan).
Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...and CHISATO O. DUBREULL, Editors. Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Washington...University of Washington Press, Seattle) Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People is an impressive...book, rich in elaborate illustrations of Ainu artifacts. It also includes drawings and...
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Ainu rise up from the margins of Japanese society
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/10/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...enthusiastic crowd in the language of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan. Sakai, 25, belongs to a group of young Ainu at the forefront of a revival of ethnic...pressure to conform. Sakai is a leader of the Ainu Rebels, a group of more than a dozen Ainu...
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Ainu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Ainu ETHNONYMS: Aino, Emischi, Ezo, Hokkaid ō Ainu, Kurile Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu Orientation The Ainu are a group of people in northern Japan whose traditional life was based on a hunting, fishing, and plant-gathering economy...
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Tattooing
Book article from: Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
...Japanese islands for thousands of years. The Ainu people from the island of Hokkaido practice a distinctive form of tattooing. The Ainu are an ancient people who have retained...Australia. The most striking element of Ainu tattooing was the mouth tattoo, which...
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Hokkaido
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hokkaido. The island was originally inhabited by Ainu , aborigines of uncertain ancestry. Until 1800 the Ainu outnumbered the Japanese, who had begun...southwest peninsula; there are now c.16,000 Ainu in Hokkaido. With the Meiji restoration...
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Japanese
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...peoples of Japan were most probably the Ainu, a very small number of whose descendants...x14D; . It is widely accepted that the Ainu and Japanese languages are unrelated and...from the Asian mainland and displaced the Ainu, driving them northward. It is estimated...
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Nivkh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Another early group on Sakhalin were the Ainu, who came from present-day Japan, in the south. (The Nivkh names for the Ainu are "Kui" and "Khughi"; the Chinese...also a South Tungusic tribe) and with the Ainu. Until 1917 only weak attempts were made...
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