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Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Joseph D. Hankins
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Description for Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Paperback. Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. This book enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's Buraku" people. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries. Multiculturalism, as a project of managing difference, comes into ascendancy and relief just as the ... Read more
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 have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries. Multiculturalism, as a project of managing difference, comes into ascendancy and relief just as the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Asia Pacific Modern
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520283299
SKU
V9780520283299
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About Joseph D. Hankins
Joseph D. Hankins researches the politics and productivity of labor. He is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC San Diego and is affiliated with the UCSD Critical Gender Studies Program and the UC Center for New Racial Studies. He was raised in Lubbock, Texas, one source of the rawhide processed in Japanese tanneries.
Reviews for Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Finely composed and researched.
Stephen Mansfield Japan Times Gutsy... [Hankins] took tremendous pains to put himself at the heart of the Buraku community and expose himself to the widest possible range of experiences... Well-observed. Social Science Japan Journal Hankins has written a fascinating ethnography that examines the complexities and contradictions inherent in the labor of ... Read more
Stephen Mansfield Japan Times Gutsy... [Hankins] took tremendous pains to put himself at the heart of the Buraku community and expose himself to the widest possible range of experiences... Well-observed. Social Science Japan Journal Hankins has written a fascinating ethnography that examines the complexities and contradictions inherent in the labor of ... Read more