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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 952.4
EAN: 9780813318806
ISBN: 0813318807
Label: Westview Press
Manufacturer: Westview Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: March 31, 1994
Publisher: Westview Press
Sales Rank: 299285
Studio: Westview Press
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This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaid, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the author's own experiences and on stories passed down from generation to generation, the book chronicles the disappearing world-and courageous rebirth-of this little-understood people.
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Sometimes the way things repeat themselves is uncanny. Just as the American literature of the early 20th century reflected the idea that the Native Americans would soon vanish, and writers in Australia and New Zealand pontificated on similar lines on their aboriginal neighbors, so in Japan, the aboriginal Ainu have long since been labelled "mysterious, but vanishing". To tell the truth, I thought they had already gone by the 1980s. I was wrong. Here is an autobiography, written by Kayano Shigeru, ... Read More
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Shigeru Kayano gives candid and passionate voice to an aboriginal people. The breath of the Ainu pour from each page as he narrates his life ...from the snow on his skin as small boy playing in his native homeland of Ainu Mosir (lit: Peaceful Land of the Ainu), to his grandmother's lessons and father's disillusionment, through naive comments of tourists at bear-sending ceremonies, and finally to his political ascent as the first Ainu elected to the Japanese Diet.
More then a memoir, ... Read More
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