Ainu Women and Indigenous Modernity in Settler Colonial Japan
2017年9月15日 · As I discuss in the book, the centerpiece of the Japanese government’s Ainu policy and one of Japan’s first multicultural laws, the Ainu Cultural Promotion Act (Ainu CPA) of 1997, poses two significant obstacles to Ainu identity and Ainu expression of …
Ainu people - Wikipedia
The Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan and southeastern Russia, including Hokkaido and the Tōhoku region of Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai.
Ainu woman, for the first time, laid bare her true feelings and experiences of discrimination. She did not want to let those experiences be known to others and to make her family feel sad by knowing about them. Those who feel ashamed are the Ainu women who were discriminated against, not the Japanese who discriminated against them.
Rehumanizing Ainu | Meridians | Duke University Press
2024年4月1日 · In doing so, the Ainu performance scene in this article presents itself as a theoretical performance activism against the Western (and Japanese imperial) notion of Indigenous peoples as less-than-human.
The Gender of Cloth: Ainu Women and Cultural Revitalization
Ainu women in their mid-forties to early seventies began meeting to exchange traditional knowledge, including techniques for gathering medicinal herbs and wild plants, techniques for weaving with natural fibers, embroidery patterns, and song and dance.
Hands that never rest: Ainu women, cultural revival, and …
Based on eighteen months of ethnographic and museum research from 2004 to 2005, in Hokkaido, Japan, I demonstrate how local engagement with global indigenous discourse has empowered women to negotiate questions of authenticity and to recuperate themselves as Ainu, despite historical ruptures.
A study of J/A and Ainu women - Nichi Bei News
2024年1月1日 · Elena Tajima Creef, a leading scholar in the examination of the photographic archive of Japanese America, presents a study of, in her words, “Japanese/American” and Ainu women, providing a deep reading of four contexts of photographs with a …
[PDF] Ainu Women in the Past and Now - Semantic Scholar
2018年12月1日 · This paper examines the ways of Ainu women in the community articulating their identity as resistance from discrimination by the Japanese ethnic majority. One of the Ainu women’s communities is the …
11. The Gender of Cloth Ainu Women and Cultural Revitalization
2017年12月31日 · This paper examines the ways of Ainu women in the community articulating their identity as resistance from discrimination by the Japanese ethnic majority. One of the Ainu women’s communities is the …
Indigenous women facing educational disadvantages: The case of the Ainu ...
2013年7月12日 · While a few Ainu activists are deeply engaged in the Ainu movement, young women, like the six we met, have less contact with Ainu-related associations and organizations. This lack of participation greatly reduces their ability to change their experiences of discrimination.
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