ISBN:
9780520959163
,
0520959167
Language:
English
,
Japanese
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxii, 277 pages)
,
illustrations, map.
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific modern 13
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Buraku people Social conditions
;
Buraku people Government policy
;
Multiculturalism Japan
;
Labor Japan
;
Working class Japan
;
Japan Social conditions
;
Japan Politics and government
;
Japan
;
Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's "Buraku" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of associations with labor considered unclean, such as leather and meat production. That labor, however, is vanishing from Japan: Liberalized markets have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - English and Japanese. - Print version record
