Northern frontiers of Qing China and Tokugawa Japan: a comparative study of frontier policy
In: Research paper / University of Chicago, Department of Geography no. 213
In: Research paper / University of Chicago, Department of Geography no. 213
In: Kagaku Gijutsu Seisaku Kenkyūjo kōenroku 198
In: Asia Pacific modern 13
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