Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan Volume 13
(Part of the Asia Pacific Modern Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520283295
ISBN13:9780520283299
Release Date:July 2014
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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