Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to PostmodernThis text challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Offering historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, the book ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. All editors from ANU. |
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Table des matières
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The Place of Okinawa in Japanese Historical Identity | 95 |
Ainu and Okinawan Identities in Contemporary Japan | 117 |
Indonesia under the Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere | 160 |
Japanese Army Internment Policies for Enemy Civilians During the AsiaPacific War | 174 |
Modern Patriarchy and the Formation of the Japanese Nation State | 213 |
Unique or Universal? | 224 |
Emperor Rice and Commoners | 235 |
Two Interpretations of Japanese Culture | 245 |
Impediments in Japans Deep Structure | 265 |
Diversity and Identity in the TwentyFirst Century | 287 |
Some Reflections on Identity Formation in East Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | 135 |
A Note on Mutual Images | 153 |
Index | 293 |
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Ainu Ainu language ancient archaeology archipelago areas Asian Asuka Bruno Taut bunka century chapter China Chinese civilian civilisation colonial concept contemporary countries diversity Dutch East Indies early East Asia emperor enemy citizens established Europe European excavations foreign Gavan McCormack Greater East Asia Hokkaido household human ideology immigrants imperial Indonesian internment camps islands Japan Japanese archaeology Japanese army Japanese culture Japanese history Japanese identity Japanese society Java Jomon katei Kinai Kofun period Korean Kyoto language linguistic living Manchukuo Mark Hudson material culture Meiji military internment centres Minatogawa minzoku modern family modern Japanese Nara prefecture Nihon North Kyushu Okinawa organisation Palaeolithic Personal View political population pottery prefecture prehistory region Rekishi relations relationship rice Ryukyu Sakaguchi Semarang Shobo Siam social South-east Asia structure Taut Taut's Tokyo trade tradition Umehara Takeshi University Press View of Japanese western Yamato Yayoi period
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| Titre | Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern Contemporary Japanese Society |
| Rédacteurs | Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack |
| Collaborateur | Gavan McCormack |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521003628, 9780521003629 |
| Longueur | 302 pages |
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