First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Describes the history, modern and traditional cultural practices and economies, geographic background, and ongoing oppression and struggles of the Ainu of Japan

"Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art

Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. Race, Resistan

Indigenous peoples throughout the globe are custodians of a unique, priceless, and increasingly imperiled legacy of oral lore. Among them the Ainu, a people nat