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Culture summaryessay 2009 • Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
Ainu • Asia > East Asia
This is a culture summary of the Ainu. Information is presented on major aspects of Ainu culture....The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern SakhalinBook 1984 • Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
Ainu • Asia > East Asia
This book describes the 'way of life' of the Ainu people who, until the mid-twentieth century, lived as nomadic hunters and gatherers inhabiting a remote region in the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin Island. When the USSR took over the Sakhalin ...Illness and healing among the Sakhalin AinuBook 1981 • Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
Ainu • Asia > East Asia
This book describes the views of the Ainu of Sakhalin island, northern Japan, concerning illness and medicine. It discusses these issues as parts of the highly complex universe of the Ainu in which deities, demons and human beings form three major co...