Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/03

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Japanese Social and Racial Groups
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Fri Jun 3 18:09:10 2005
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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/

Replies: Reply from msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small) ([Leica] OT: Japanese Social and Racial Groups)
In reply to: Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard) ([Leica] Photoessay: Japan disability protest 2005.05.12)
Message from mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura) ([Leica] Photoessay: Japan disability protest 2005.05.12)
Message from mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura) ([Leica] Photoessay: Japan disability protest 2005.05.12)
Message from msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small) ([Leica] OT: Japanese Social and Racial Groups)