MaherDiversity In Japanese Culture
John Maher PhD studied philosophy and linguistics at the Universities of London, Michigan and Edinburgh. He is Associate Professor of Linguistics at International Christian University, Tokyo. Gaynor Macdonald studied sociology and politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and social anthropology at the University of Sydney. She is Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Western Sydney - Macarthur.
PART ONE INTRODUCTION 1 Culture and Diversity in Japan PART TWO HISTORICAL
AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 2 Nationalism and Cultural Pluralism in Modern
Japan: S6etsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement 3 The Sociology of
Ethnocentrism in Japan 4 The Ainu: Construction of an Image 5 The Right
Stuff: Towards an Environmental Linguistics PART THREE OTHER VOICES: AINU,
KOREAN AND PEOPLE OF THE BURAKU 6 Minority Dynamics in Japan: Towards a
Society of Sharing 7 Deprivation and Resistance: Ainu Movements in Modern
Japan With My Heritage of Pride and Struggle 8 Maintaining Culture and
Language: Koreans in Osaka 9 The Confidence to Live! Experiencing the
Buraku Liberation Movement PART FOUR OTHER VOICES: FAMILIES, SIGNS AND
DIFFERENCES 10 Woman as Outsider: Sexuality, Society and the Familial Mind
11 The Right to Speak: Language Maintenance in Japan 12 A Non-Japanese
Japanese: On Being a Returnee 13 The Deaf and Their Language: Progress
Towards Equality PART FIVE AFTERWORD 14 The Politics of Diversity in the
Nation-State
