Author: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107634784
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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.
A Northwest Coast Sakhalin Ainu World View
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ainu
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Aborigines of Sakhalin
Author: Werner WinterPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110820765
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
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.
The Aborigines of Sakhalin
Author: Alfred F. MajewiczPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110109283
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
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.
Irezumi
Author: Willem R. van GulikPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Return of Ainu
Author: Katarina SjobergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134351984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of the Ainu. The author’s main concern is the phenomenon called Fourth World Populations. After having read a book entitled Aiona by the French linguist Pierre Naert, she decided to investigate further the Ainu people and their integration into the Japanese nation state.
Sakhalin Ainu Folklore
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Ethnic and Tourist Arts
Author: Nelson H. H. GraburnPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520038424
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Chapter by N. Williams separately annotated.
The Monkey as Mirror
Author: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069122210X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
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.