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, 2019 The Ainu inhabit the island of Hokkaidō, which was incorporated into Japan in 1868. Contact with the Japanese did not influence traditional Ainu religious beliefs and practices until the late 1880's. This entry focuses on the Ainu living in Saru Basin, Hokkaidō around the time of 1880; before major cultural changes occurred as a result of Japanese ...
Pitek, Emily
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Sakhalin Ainu utar ~ utah and common Ainu *-r [PDF]
, 2014 In this brief contribution, a more accurate treatment of the sound correspondence Hokkaidō Ainu -r# vs. Sakhalin Ainu -rV# ~ -N# is offered. Explaining the particularities of such a correspondence requires introducing a non-trivial modification of the traditional synchronic description of Sakhalin Ainu morphophonemics.
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, 2011 The topic of this Master Thesis is about Ainu - a group of indigenous people from the northern part of Japan. The focus is on Ainu aged in their late 20’s and early 30’s and how and to what extent their people’s dismal history still effects the perception they have on their Ainu identity and heritage.
Holtan, Sissel Stormo
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Японские исследования, 2022 This article is devoted to the analysis of the Act on Promoting Measures to Realize a Society in Which the Pride of the Ainu People Is Respected (Act No. 16 of 2019).
E. S. Chekunkova
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La chasse à la baleine chez les Aïnous et leurs traditions préhistoriques dans l’archipel du Japon
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022 The Ainu is an ethnic group native to Hokkaido in the north part of Japanese Archipelago. Their territory also previously extended to the island of Sakhalin and the Chishima Islands. This knowledge and experience, was maintained by the Ainu.
Kazuharu Takehana
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Ainu in modern Japanese society: the problem of returning the remains of ancestors
RUDN Journal of World History, 2021 The article is devoted to the issue of repatriation of Ainu ancestral remains, collected by Japanese researchers in the second half of the 19th - 20th centuries.
Ekaterina S. Chekunkova
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"Crafting Our Future Together": Urban Diasporic Indigeneity from an Ainu Perspective in Japan [PDF]
, 2020 This dissertation discusses living experiences and stories of urban Ainu youth, Indigenous people of Japan in the twenty-first century. I have weaved my own experiences as a Tokyo Ainu into the discussion in order to illustrate forms of Ainu cultural ...
Uzawa, Kanako
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Японские исследования, 2023 The article reviews the book by Vasily Shchepkin Ainu Through the Eyes of Japanese: An Unknown Collection by A.V. Grigoriev (2022). The book is based on 18th and 19th-century Japanese manuscript materials and blockprints about the Ainu people, which for ...
E. S. Yuklyaevskikh
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Urespa (“Growing Together”): the remaking of Ainu-Wajin relations in Japan through an innovative social venture [PDF]
, 2020 Urespa, meaning “to grow together” in the Ainu language, is a social venture founded at Sapporo University in 2010. The Urespa club brings Indigenous Ainu and Wajin (i.e.
Uzawa, Kanako, Watson, Mark K.
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Японские исследования, 2022 The article is a review of the collective monograph New Sources on the History and Culture of the Ainu. In the chapters of the monograph, Russian scholars, based on the analysis of material and written sources in Russian and foreign languages, consider ...
Y. S. Pestushko
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