From Crafts to Agency: The Legacy of Colonial Discourses in Exhibiting the Ainu in the Tokyo National Museum and National Museum of Ethnology at Osaka between 1977 and 2017
The Ainu are indigenous groups of people found in Hokkaido and northeast Honshu, Japan. During the nineteenth century, their land was integrated into the Japanese empire and the people redefined and assimilated. While intended to erase the Ainu as distinct groups, policies and discourses also showed...
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University of Leicester
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Museum & Society |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/4324 |