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Ainu Archaeology as Ethnohistory: Iron technology among the Saru Ainu of Hokkaido, Japan, in the 17th century

Ainu Archaeology as Ethnohistory: Iron technology among the Saru Ainu of Hokkaido, Japan, in the 17th century

Fukasawa, Yuriko

Paperback

Series: BAR International, Book 744

ArchaeologyJapanese HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0860549771
ISBN13: 9780860549772
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Dec 31 1998
Pages: 119
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
This book presents an archaeological challenge to explain the ethnohistory of the Ainu of Japan and reappraise the Ainu culture. This challenge is posed by the existence of iron-working hearths in excavated Ainu villages dated before 1667. The Ainu culture has hitherto been thought of as largely a hunting, fishing and gathering society. The archaeological evidence, however, suggests something more complex, and leads to the hypothesis that this labelling of the Ainu may be a historical, academic and political distortion. Iron-working technology was chosen as the focus because technology is a form of social expression as well as a techno-complex. Taking account of earlier research, this book provides a more detailed understanding of the emergence of Ainu cultural identity and social change among the Ainu by examining past cultural contact and interaction between the Ainu and outsiders, and by drawing on Ainu oral tradition as well as archaeological material.

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