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"Meko Oyasi", a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama
, 2022 In this chapter, we would like to present a folktale of the Sakhalin Ainu tradition narrated by Haru Fujiyama, who was a speaker of the Rayciska dialect of Sakhalin Ainu and also one of the last native speakers of this Ainu variety. The folktale entitled
Elia Dal Corso
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Japan: Political Developments and Data in 2022
European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 288-308, December 2023., 2023 Abstract The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in July had an enormous impact on politics in Japan in 2022, with subsequent recriminations regarding connections between ruling party lawmakers and the controversial Unification Church new religious movement leading to public outcry and forcing Prime Minister Kishida to remove several high‐
AIRO HINO +3 more
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The Sakhalin Ainu: origin and population contacts according to cranial-metric data [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографииThe study is focused on recent population history of the Sakhalin Ainu people, which remains rebated over the last 70 years. Albeit it is generally accepted that the Sakhalin Ainu are decedents of Ainu migrants from Hokkaido, significant cranial ...
Moiseyev V.G., Zubova A.V.
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Ежегодник Япония, 2023 Over the past century and a half, Japan has been debating whether it is a monoethnic nation-state or whether there are representatives of ethnic groups other than the Japanese living in it.
V. V. Shchepkin
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Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation
Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 1255-1274, July 2023., 2023 Abstract The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios ...
Elaine Stratford +8 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 290-303, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper aims to make a contribution to ongoing debates in decolonial, indigenous, and island geographies through a case study of the Okinawan indigenous movement and its recent encounter with a neo‐nationalist, and in effect neocolonial, movement.
Hidefumi Nishiyama
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Японские исследования, 2022 Based on comparative study of published Russian and Japanese sources, the article describes the history of the Russian settlement on the island of Urup in 1795–1805.
V. V. Shchepkin
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Signifying Ainu Space: Reimagining Shiretoko’s Landscapes through Indigenous Ecotourism1
Humanities, 2016 Recognized as Japan’s indigenous peoples in 2008, the Ainu people of Hokkaido have sought to recuperate land and self-determination by physically reenacting Ainu traditional knowledge through ecotourism in Hokkaido.
ann-elise lewallen
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Izumi, 2021 This research discusses the elements of material culture in the literary text of Jakka Dofuni Umi no Kioku no Monogatari by Tsushima Yuko in presenting historical memories of the Ainu as one of the indigenous people in Japan.
Wawat Rahwati +2 more
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A Comparative Analysis of an East Sakhalin Ainu Folktale Collected by Bronisław Piłsudski
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022 This contribution presents a linguistic analysis of an East Sakhalin Ainu (East Enciw‘itah) folktale collected by Bronisław Piłsudski in 1903. The author bases his analysis on two different versions of the text, which Piłsudski compiled himself using ...
Dal Corso, Elia
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