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Our Land Was a Forest

Name: Our Land Was a Forest
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
SKU: 9780813318806
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An Ainu Memoir

Autor: Mark Selden, Kayano Shigeru

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This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaido...

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Autor

Mark Selden, Kayano Shigeru

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1994

Pagini

191

EAN

9780813318806

ISBN

0813318807

Enbook ID

04724771

Editura

Taylor & Francis Inc

Greutate

262

Dimensiuni

140 x 217 x 12

Descriere completă

This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaido, 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.Kayano describes with disarming simplicity and frankness the personal conflicts he faced as a result of the tensions between a traditional and a modern society and his lifelong efforts to fortify a living Ainu culture. A master storyteller, he paints a vivid picture of the Ainus' ecologically sensitive lifestyle, which revolved around bear hunting, fishing, farming, and woodcutting.Unlike the few existing ethnographies of the Ainu, this account is the first written by an insider intimately tied to his own culture yet familiar with the ways of outsiders. Speaking with a rare directness to the Ainu and universal human experience, this book will interest all readers concerned with the fate of indigenous peoples.