The Economic Organization of the Outcasts of Feudal Tokyo

The records of civilized societies have tended to be written by, for, and about the elite. Thus, history says very little about the lower classes. This is particularly true of outcastes who are ideologically outside of normal society. In early Japan when census tabulations were taken the outcastes were not usually included because they were not considered to be real Some maps were made without outcaste settlements drawn in and maps were foreshortened to exclude their communities. Later, when they were listed in a census, they stand out by being listed separately from people. They were usually lost to the census takers after their liberation in 1871 because after that

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