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Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan


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About the Book

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.
About the Author: David L. Howell is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He is the author of Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (California, 1995).


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  • ISBN-13: 9780520240858
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 166 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520240855
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 261
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 503 gr


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