Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks! At 11:43 PM 6/2/2005, you wrote: >>Now you did explain further on the Eta. If I understand correctly, there >>were/are the people that only do the "unclean" jobs (grave digging etc.), >>similar to the lowest caste of the Indian system, is it not? > >It's much, much more complicated than that and this isn't the appropriate >forum. I'd refer you to several articles on the topic: > >Reber, Emily. Buraku Mondai in Japan: Historical and Modern Perspectives >and Directions for the Future. Harvard Human Rights Journal 12(Spring >1999). Pp 297-359. >Neary, Ian. Burakumin in contemporary Japan. In Japan's minorities: the >illusion of homogeneity. New York: Routledge. 1997. ISBN 0415152186. Pp >79-108. >Ooms, Herman. Status and state racism: from Kawata to Eta. Chapter 5 in >Tokugawa village practice : class, status, power, law. Berkeley: >University of California Press. 1996. Pp. 243-312. > > >KN >-- >Karen Nakamura >http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ >http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/ > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)