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Ruins of identity : ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands / Mark J. Hudson

Hudson, Mark,i1963- [Verfasser]

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1999

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (ix, 323 pages) : Illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-318) and index

0-585-32468-9 ; 978-0-585-32468-5 ; 978-0-8248-6419-4 ; 0-8248-6419-0 ; 0-8248-1930-6

LB 48450 NF 8970

 

In its examination of the processes of ethnogenesis -- the formation of ethnic groups -- Ruins of Identity offers an approach to ethnicity that differs fundamentally from that found in most Japanese scholarship and popular discourse.