Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Howell, David L.

Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520240858)

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Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Howell, David L.

Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

$85.00
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Howell, David L.

Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: David L. Howell
ISBN-10: 0520240855
ISBN-13: 9780520240858
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2005
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.52w x 0.87d
By David L. Howell
By David L. Howell
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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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