Documenting Urban Indigeneity
Tokyo Ainu and the 2011 survey on the living conditions of Ainu outside Hokkaido
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2133150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Cotterill (0000-0001-5136-390X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 328-338 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466016027352 |
| OpenAlex | W4408533723, W4410181578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
If acknowledged at all, Japan's indigenous population the Ainu are usually represented as a rural, exotic group, bound to ancestral homes in Hokkaido and the Northern territories. Yet, large numbers of Ainu, perhaps even the majority of their population, now live in urban centres outside Hokkaido. The recent documentary TOKYO Ainu challenges traditional, detrimental representations of Ainu culture as solely rural and sedentary, and records the complex contemporaneous reality of urban indigeneity lived by those Ainu within Greater Tokyo. This article firstly reports the main themes of the film. It then compares the relative success of TOKYO Ainu in broadening discourse and understanding of Ainu identity to the Japanese government's recent living conditions survey released this year
Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Sociology · Anthropology · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · History · Korean Urban and Social Studies · Urban and spatial planning
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2015 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |