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Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Howell, David L.

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral World HistoryJapanese History

ISBN10: 0520240855
ISBN13: 9780520240858
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 7 2005
Pages: 261
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
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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