Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. preface ix
4. 1. Beyond Ainu Studies An Introduction 1
5. Theme ONE: Representation / Objectification
6. 2 .Ainu Ethnography Historical Representations in the West 25
7. 3. Tourists, Anthropologists, and Visions of Indigenous Society in Japan 45
8. Theme Two: New Critical Responses
9. 4. Tokyo Ainu and the Urban Indigenous Experience 69
10. 5 .Charanke 86
11. 6 .As a Child of Ainu 92
12. Theme three :Academic Disciplines and Understandings of Ainu
13. 7 .Is Ainu History Japanese History? 101
14. 8. Ainu and Hunter-Gatherer Studies 117
15. 9. Trade and the Paradigm Shift in Research on Ainu Hunting Practices 136
16. Theme four: The Discourse of Culturalism
17. 10. Our Ancestors’ Handprints The Evolution of Ainu Women’s Clothing Culture 153
18. 11. The Gender of Cloth Ainu Women and Cultural Revitalization 171
19. 12 .From Collecting Words to Writing Grammars A Brief History of Ainu Linguistics 185
20. 13 .The Ainu, Law, and Legal Mobilization, 1984–2009 200
21. References 223
22. Contributors 251
23. Index 253