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Mr. Ainu - cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in a hierarchical culture

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Author

  • Katarina Sjöberg

Summary, in English

This thesis discusses cultural change among the Ainu, Japan's indigenous people, its specificity and the circumstances that have led to it. Fieldwork was conducted in Hokkaido, the main territory of the Ainu, during a period of 12 months, stretching from 1985 to 1988. Focusing on strategies makes it possible to lay bare the multiple nature of agency that characterize the interaction between, the Ainu, the larger society and the state. The questions raised concern how the strategies of the Ainu are structured and the stress is on cultural aspects of Ainu contemporary activities and how they have been incorporated into the larger Japanese society.

Department/s

Publishing year

1991

Language

English

Publication/Series

Lund Studies in Social Anthropology

Issue

2

Document type

Dissertation

Publisher

Department of Sociology, Lund University

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • social anthropology
  • ethnicity
  • sociology
  • Hokkaido Ainu
  • Japan
  • cultural mobibilzation
  • sociologi
  • socialantropologi

Status

Published

Supervisor

  • Kajsa Ekholm-Friedman

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 91-628-0270-0

Defence date

28 February 1991

Defence time

10:15

Defence place

Lund

Opponent

  • Roger Keesing (professor)