EAST 212 Lecture 2: EAST 212 Week 2 Lecture 2
5 May 2019
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Overview of japanese history = not a unified ethnicity from the beginning of time. Meiji restoration 1868:hugely formative transition , deepens understanding of pre/post mr period. Ka-i period = instituted as a policy in the 1630s = spatial as opposed to temporal way of understanding differences. Before meiji = ka-i after meiji = bunmei = temporal differentiation = "civilization" Hinge period = unevenness in the application of these discourses. End of edo period: rise of russia (before russians in hokkaido not allowed to associate them with. 1750s: northern part of island had more and more russian ppl living there => suddenly more ainu ppl adopting their religion, clothing styles, language = bilingualism. What happened : that part of land was taken from the matsumae and administered by the. Shogunate so they started implementing assimilation policies sudden experiment since before different styles were promoted as markers of differences.
