Sakhalin Ainu Folklore
Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Werner Winter |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2018-07-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110820765 |
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author | : Werner Winter |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110895684 |
Volume 3 is devoted exclusively to B. Piłsudski's Ainu-related materials, for their most part previously unpublished. In addition, it comprises Piłsudski's research reports on his expeditions, a superb collection of fifty prayers in Ainu as well as texts and melodies recovered from Piłsudski's famous wax-cylinder recordings of Ainu-folklore of 1902-1903. The bibliographies printed in volume 1 are extensively enhanced. Abundant illustrative material is included.
Author | : Alfred F. Majewicz |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1998-09-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783110109283 |
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author | : Elia Dal Corso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783969390795 |
Author | : Basil Hall Chamberlain |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781493778768 |
The Ainu are an ethnic minority in Japan, living primarily on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido, although there were also small populations of Ainu living on the island of Sakhalin and in the Kuriles until the end of World War II, when the Soviet Union took control of Sakhalin and the Ainu there fled. Until the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan took formal possession of Hokkaido and began the systematic integration of the Ainu into the Japanese nation, the Ainu lived almost exclusively as hunter-gatherers north of the always advancing frontier of Japanese agriculture. 'Traditional' anthropological wisdom holds that the Ainu are descended from the aboriginal inhabitants of Japan who were gradually dispossessed of their land by the invading Japanese and their superior civilization. This view is held up by the fact that the Ainu generally do not look Japanese, by the apparently radical differences between the two languages, and by the large number of Ainu place-names in Japan proper. More recent anthropology, however, sees a far greater continuity between the two cultures, with many deep and ancient similarities. Ainu literature was traditionally of an exclusively oral variety, and very little was reduced to writing in any language before the 19th century. Many of the stories occur in more or less lengthy poems known as yukar, which are an epic-like form. Many of the stories presented in this book also occur in the context of much longer and deeper stories, which is not made apparent; more than likely because the importance or even existence of the yukar was unknown to the author. Basil Hall Chamberlain was well-known as one of the pioneering translators and interpreters of things Japanese in his time. (He also translated the Shinto classic Kojiki.) Like many philologists, his interest in the Ainu was purely academic, centering mainly on the light that knowledge of the Ainu could shed on Japanese place-names and prehistory. Like many of the Japanese among whom he lived and worked, his opinion of the Ainu was quite mean, and his comments in the Prefatory Remarks sound downright inflammatory today, a fine specimen of Victorian racism.
Author | : Bronisław Piłsudski |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 936 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Ainu |
ISBN | : 9783110176148 |