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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 566-580, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
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Museum & SocietyThe Ainu are indigenous groups of people found in Hokkaido and northeast Honshu, Japan. During the nineteenth century, their land was integrated into the Japanese empire and the people redefined and assimilated.
Edwin Pietersma
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN SATOYAMA AND THE AINU WAY OF LIFE
Jurnal Kawistara, 2016 This study compares the concept of Satoyama with that of the Ainu, with a view of establishing the cultural, ecological and economical similarities between them and to examine the impact of the development of Hokkaido on the Ainu human ecology.
Devon Dublin and Noriyuki Tanaka
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Revitalizing Ainu. A Web-accessible Ainu-Japanese-English Conversational Dictionary [PDF]
, 2009 Ainu (Northern Japan, isolate) is nearly extinct at present, as only a couple of people aged 80-90 remember their native language. In the beginning of the 20th century, the Ainu (present population about 100,000) experienced severe ethnic and linguistic ...
Bugaeva, Anna
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Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, Volume 12, Issue 6, Page 807-816, June 2025.Abstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Marianna Selikhova +3 more
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Indigenous entrepreneurs: Ainu museums
, 2008 Studies show that Ainu Indigenous Entrepreneurs have reinvented the production and display of Ainu cultural traditions as tourist attractions (Hiwasaki, 2000; Cheung, 2005).
Theresa Savage (18943567) +1 more
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Improving Basic Natural Language Processing Tools for the Ainu Language
Information, 2019 Ainu is a critically endangered language spoken by the native inhabitants of northern Japan. This paper describes our research aimed at the development of technology for automatic processing of text in Ainu.
Karol Nowakowski +3 more
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Culture and context in Interprofessional education: Expectations in Australia and Japan
Medical Education, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 83-87, January 2025.Abstract The attributes of collaborative practice in health care vary across contexts, necessitating the adaptation of interprofessional education curricula to prepare students for the collaborative practice expected in their respective health care systems.
Fiona Kent, Junji Haruta
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Museum & Society, 2007 In the District of Nibutani, Town of Biratori, Hokkaido, Japan, the inheritance of Ainu culture has been in a critical condition recently, despite the long-term struggle of a famous Ainu, Kayano Shigeru.
Naohiro Nakamura
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Japan: Political Developments and Data in 2023
European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 260-274, December 2024.Abstract Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) continued to slide in public opinion polls in 2023, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's approval ratings never recovering from the scandal over the party's association with the controversial Unification Church that was exposed in the previous year. Kishida survived an assassination attempt in April,
AIRO HINO +3 more
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