Book
The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin
Waveland Press, Inc. • Prospect Heights, Illinois • Published In 1984 • Pages:
By: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 during the World War II, the Japanese government resettled the Ainu in the Hokkaido Island. This led to the gradual disappearance the Ainu way of life. This book argues that aspects of pre-location Ainu culture still persist in 'the basic behavioral patterns annd conginitive maps of older people,' and seeks to reconstruct them through interviews and closing obeserving elderly informants.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Research and development
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Community structure
- Household
- External relations
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- General character of religion
- Organized ceremonial
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ainu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-122)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ainu