AINU

īˈnoo, aborigines of Japan who may be descended from a Caucasoid people who once lived in N Asia. More powerful invaders from the Asian mainland gradually forced the Ainu to retreat to the northern islands of Japan and Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in what is now the Russian Far East; today, they reside mainly on Hokkaido. Reduced in number, they live by hunting, fishing, and small-scale farming. The Ainu have attracted the attention of tourists, and some now make a living by selling reproductions of their cultural artifacts. Physically, they seem related to European peoples, i.e., they have much more body hair than typical East Asians, but intermarriage has introduced Asian traits among them. Contact with the Japanese has led also to culture change and assimilation, which the Ainu have resisted in the past, with decreasing success. Their religion is highly animistic and centers on a bear cult; a captive bear is sacrificed at an annual winter feast and his spirit, thus released, is believed to guard the Ainu settlements.

See N. G. Munro, Ainu Creed and Cult (1963); I. Hilger, Together with the Ainu (1971).

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Ainu Creed and Cult
Book by B. Z. Seligman, H. Watanabe; Columbia University Press, 1963
Subjects: Ainu--Religion
AINU CREED AND CULT AINU CREED AND CULT by Neil Gordon Munro Edited with a preface and...II. THE KAMUI 16 The trusted kamui of the Ainu pantheon. Familiar and subsidiary kamui. Theriomorphic kamui. Mischievous...
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The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800
Book by Brett L. Walker; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: Ainu--History, Hokkaido (Japan)--History, Human Ecology--Japan--Hokkaido, Japan--History--Tokugawa Period, 1600-1868
The Conquest of Ainu Lands The Conquest of Ainu Lands ECOLOGY AND CULTURE IN JAPANESE EXPANSION, 1590...the University of California Walker, Brett L. The conquest of Ainu lands : ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590 1800...
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The Ainu of Northern Japan: A Study of Conquest and Acculturation
Book by ShinichirŌ Takakura, John A. Harrison; American Philosophical Society, 1960
Subjects: Ainu
...VOLUME 50, PART 4 1960 _____ THE AINU OF NORTHERN JAPAN A Study in Conquest...VOLUME 50, PART 4 1960 _____ THE AINU OF NORTHERN JAPAN A Study in Conquest...Congress Catalog Card No.: 60-9589 THE AINU OF NORTHERN JAPAN A Study in Conquest...
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Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir
Book by Shigeru Kayano, Kyoko Selden, Lili Selden; Westview Press, 1944
Subjects: Ainu
...Mark Selden Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir , Kayano Shigeru The Political...Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao Our Land Was a Forest An Ainu Memoir Our Land Was a Forest An Ainu Memoir Kayano Shigeru with a Foreword by...
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Race, Resistance, and the Ainu of Japan
Book by Richard Siddle; Routledge, 1996
Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan Dispossessed and marginalised...the colonisation of their homeland, the Ainu have been categorised as an inferior and...ethnic homogeneity of Japanese society, the Ainu are reasserting both their culture and...
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journal articles on: Ainu  - 74 results

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Emerging Indigenous Governance: Ainu Rights at the Intersection of Global Norms and Domestic Institutions
Journal article by Erik Larson, Zachary Johnson, Monique Murphy; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 33, 2008
Subjects: Ainu--Civil rights, Autonomy (Political science)--Analysis, Autonomy--Analysis, Indigenous peoples--Civil rights, Japan--Domestic policy
Emerging Indigenous Governance: Ainu Rights at the Intersection of Global Norms and Domestic Institutions...shape the diffusion of indigenous governance, we examine the Ainu in Japan. While Ainu history parallels the history of other indigenous peoples...
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Dettmer, Hans Adalbert, Editor. Acta Sieboldiana VIII. ein Nachgelassenes Manuskript Ph.F. Von Siebolds Zu "Nippon" Abteilung VII: Das Mogami Tokunai Zugeschriebene Ainu-Worterbuch
Journal article by Tjeerd De Graaf; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 63, 2004
Subjects: Acta Sieboldiana VIII. Ein nachgelassenes Manuskript Ph.F. von Siebolds zu "Nippon" Abteilung VII: Das Mogami Tokunai zugeschriebene Ainu-Worterbuch (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...VII: Das Mogami Tokunai Zugeschriebene Ainu-Worterbuch. by Tjeerd de Graaf...VII: Das Mogami Tokunai zugeschriebene Ainu-Worterbuch. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz...VII: Das Mogami Tokunai zugeschriebene Ainu-Worterbuch, 2002. IX. Vera Schmidt, Korrespondenz...
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Multiethnic Japan and the Monoethnic Myth
Journal article by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993
Subjects: Ethnic relations--Japan, Japan--Race relations, National characteristics, Japanese--Analysis
...settlers in the Jomon era included the Ainu and Ryukyuan peoples, and were followed...into the expanding japanese nation. The Ainu maintained their ethnic characteristics...addition to at least twenty-four thousand Ainu and a million Okinawans, ethnic minorities...
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Embodying Okhotsk Ethnicity: Human Skeletal Remains from the Aonae Dune Site, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido
Journal article by Hirofumi Matsumura, Mark J. Hudson, Kenichiro Koshida, Yoichi Minakawa; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Hokkaido--Discovery and exploration, Hokkaido--Natural history, Human settlements--Discovery and exploration, Human settlements--History
...morphologically closer to Epi-Jomon or Jomon and Ainu populations and significantly different...shares morphological features with the Ainu. Here we report new skeletal remains that...This type of disk was used by the Kuril Ainu until historic times and is usually termed...
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Yayoi Wave, Kofun Wave, and Timing: The Formation of the Japanese People and Japanese Language
Journal article by Wontack Hong; Korean Studies, Vol. 29, 2005
Subjects: Japanese culture--Analysis, Japanese language--Analysis, Japanese language--History
...insular case. The Jomon Culture of the Ainu and Malayo-Polynesian People Eiichiro Ishida...Genetic studies, however, show that the Ainu are much closer to northern Mongoloid than...Hokkaido and the northern mainland include Ainu words, but such Ainu-like names never occur...
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Seeking a New Partnership
Magazine article by Nancy Seufert-Barr; UN Chronicle, Vol. 30, June 1993
Subjects: Indigenous peoples--International aspects
Seeking a new partnership by Nancy Seufert-Barr The bushmen of Botswana, the Ainu of Japan, the Pygmies of central Africa, the Inuits of the Arctic, the Yanomami of Brazil and the Maori of New Zealand may be as...
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Post-NAFTA Politics: Learning from Asia
Magazine article by Martin Hart-Landsberg; Monthly Review, Vol. 46, June 1994
Subjects: International business enterprises--Political aspects, Japan--Politics and government, Multinational corporations--Political aspects
...Japanese to the struggle being waged by the Ainu people for legal recognition of their indigenous rights (the Ainu are the original natives of Japan). Since then, Japan PP21 activists have worked with Ainu leaders to organize two national speaking...
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Conserving Heritage: Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 30, June 1993
Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Laws, regulations, etc.
...Japanese Government denied even the existence of Ainu people, which had formed a distinct society and...thousands of years. The result: the unwritten Ainu language is dying and a fraction of the Ainu people know their native culture, which was built...
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The Diffusionists Have Landed : You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention
Magazine article by Marc K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000
Subjects: Emigration and immigration--History, United States--History
...originally described as Caucasoid are actually associated with a Japanese people known as the Ainu, they believe. If Kennewick Man is a member of the Ainu, that groups ancient maritime tradition might explain how he got here. Scientists say that more...
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Diffusionists Have Landed: You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention
Magazine article by Mark K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000
Subjects: America, Archaeology--Methods, Native American history--History, Native North Americans--History, Native South Americans--History
...originally described as Caucasoid are actually associated with a Japanese people known as the Ainu, they believe. If Kennewick Man is a member of the Ainu, that groups ancient maritime tradition might explain how he got here. Scientists say that more...
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newspaper articles on: Ainu  - 14 results

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Hokkaido's Ethnic Tribe Gets Recognition; Indigenous Ainu Mark 'Turning Point'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 8, 2008
Subjects: Indigenous peoples
...Ethnic Tribe Gets Recognition; Indigenous Ainu Mark Turning Point. Byline: Takehiko...parliament in early June to recognize the ethnic Ainu as the countrys indigenous people was a...passed, said Saki Toyama, an 80-year-old Ainu woman who lives in Urakawa, a serene outpost...
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World
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 18, 2007
...BobMarley-loving maverick from North Japans Ainu folk scene? Wait, come back! Asanyone who...ancient five-stringtonkori, Oki led the Dub Ainu Band through a drifting set based on traditionalmusic...with the pulsing, bigbottomed feel of an Ainu King Tubby. Singing inthe Ainu language...
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Did Lyons Corner the Market? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 9, 2004
...London. Reading, Berks. QUESTION The Ainu race on the island of Hokkaido in Japan...how come they are in the Orient? THE Ainu are an aboriginal northern Pacific group...of the Russian island of Sakhalin. The Ainu population is dwindling rapidly as a result...
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Japanese Confront Differences; Education Official's Remark Sparks Debate over 'Homogenous Society'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 9, 2007
...comments and infuriated minorities like the Ainu indigenous people. Yupo Abe, vice president of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, said he was astonished...understanding of history." Mr. Abe said the Ainu people had long lived in Hokkaido, Japans...
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Out & About
Newspaper article by Frappa Stout; The Washington Times, April 29, 1999
...around for 10,000 years? Starting tomorrow, you can find out. "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" is a new exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History that offers an in-depth look at the Ainu, the 10,000-year-old indigenous people of Japan, through life-size...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ainu  - 6 results

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Ainu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AINU i noo, aborigines of Japan who may be descended from a...powerful invaders from the Asian mainland gradually forced the Ainu to retreat to the northern islands of Japan and Sakhalin...gradually forced to abandon in favor of small-scale farming. The Ainu have attracted the attention of tourists, and some make a...
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Shogun
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...barbarian-subduing generalissimo, dates back to 794 and originally meant commander of the imperial armies who led the campaigns against the Ainu in N Japan. The shogunate as a military administrative system was established by Yoritomo after 1185 and was known as the...
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Hokkaido
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The island was originally inhabited by Ainu , aborigines of uncertain ancestry. Until 1800 the Ainu outnumbered the Japanese, who had begun (16th...southwest peninsula; there are now c.16,000 Ainu in Hokkaido. With the Meiji restoration (1868...
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Ryukyu Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sugar and canned pineapples account for most of the exports. The inhabitants speak a language said to be related to that of the Ainu. The islands were the site of an ancient independent kingdom that had its capital at Shuri, on Okinawa. The Chinese reached the...
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Japan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...times; the dominant strain is N Asian or Mongolic, with some Malay and Indonesian admixture. One of the earliest groups, the Ainu , who still persist to some extent in Hokkaido, are physically somewhat similar to Caucasians. Japanese is the offical language...
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