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The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin
Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publisher | : Irvington Pub |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780829002768 |
The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin
Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu
Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-05-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1107634784 |
Originally published in 1981, this book explores the issue of how a society understands human illness in the absence of a germ theory. This is done through an interpretation of the illness categories and healing practices of the Sakhalin Ainu, a hunting and gathering people resettled in Japan. The text illustrates how illnesses relate to the Ainu view of the universe and how their medical system is intimately interwoven with their moral cosmology and social networks. Even such minor ailments as headaches and boils are meticulously classified to mirror the classifications of such basic perceptual structures as space and time. With the Ainu medical system as an example, this book probes questions central to research in symbolic, medical and linguistic anthropology, structuralism, and the anthropology of women.
Lost Knowledge
Author | : Benjamin B. Olshin |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004352724 |
Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories investigates early texts that speak of sophisticated technologies millennia ago that became obscured over time or were destroyed with the civilizations that had created them.
Ainu
Author | : William W. Fitzhugh |
Publisher | : Arctic Studies Center |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
"Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art, religious beliefs, mythology, and other aspects of the culture of the Ainu, The indigenous people of Japan, now principally found in Hokkaido and smaller far northern islands. Hundreds of photographs and paintings, mostly in excellent quality color, show a wide variety of Ainu people, As well as clothing, jewelry, and various artifacts." – Choice "The most in-depth treatise available on Ainu prehistory, material culture, and ethnohistory." – Library Journal
Ideas and Actions
Author | : Agehanada Bharati |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2011-06-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110805871 |
Sakhalin Ainu Folklore
Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
The Monkey as Mirror
Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 069122210X |
This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. During early periods of Japanese history the monkey's nearness to the human-animal boundary made it a revered mediator or an animal deity closest to humans. Later it became a scapegoat mocked for its vain efforts to behave in a human fashion. Modern Japanese have begun to see a new meaning in the monkey--a clown who turns itself into an object of laughter while challenging the basic assumptions of Japanese culture and society.