Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/03
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At 7:22 PM -0400 05.6.3, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 03:37 PM 6/3/05 +0900, Karen Nakamura wrote:
>>>
>>Err.... The emishi have nothing to do with the former outcaste
>>groups at all. I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The emishi
>>don't exist in the current moment. They were forced out over a
> >thousand years ago, it's kind of hard to take photos of them.
>
>Where do the Ainu fit into this structure?
The ainu are a different aboriginal group and their descendants still
live in Hokkaido, the northern island. Their situation is very
similar to the plight of native americans -- mainly because Japan
hired American consultants in the late 1800s to decide how to best
colonize them.
We only learn from the best!
For further reading:
Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil, eds.
2000 Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Seattle:
University of Washington Press.
Siddle, Richard
1997 Ainu: Japan's indigenous people. In Japan's
minorities: the illusion of homogeneity. M. Weiner, ed. Pp. 17-49.
New York: Routledge.
--
Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/