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The Aino people of Japan are very little known and where treated as savages when discovered by western travellers. Their religion was rich and cultured and this book opens the eyes of the reader to a culture that so few people know of. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions,...
2) Hokkaido
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Hokkaido: A History of Japan's Northern Isle and its People charts the journey of the island and its inhabitants through history. Located at the far north of the country's island chain, Hokkaido is a very different place from Japan's other main islands and is the center of the culture and history of Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu. This book tells the unique story of the Ainu as well as exploring the unique role Hokkaido has played in the development...
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A boy and a girl from two opposing Asian cultures fall in love at the end of a four hundred year
battle on the islands of Japan in present day Hokkaido region. With beautifully illustrated
watercolor and with Asian inspired scenic detail, this Eastern author takes us on a journey in
time to a world filled with tumultuous wartime history between the Ainu and Wain tribal
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Isabella Bird's 1878 expedition through Japan, chronicled in 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,' immerses readers in an extraordinary odyssey across the seldom-explored territories of Japan's remote northern and central regions. Breaking away from conventional travel narratives, Bird adopts an unconventional prose style, crafting a captivating tale of her off-the-beaten-path escapades.
Rather than confining herself to the urban bustle, Bird ventures deep...
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"The book progresses like a feast. Read it, because you'll never look at a table knife the same way again." -The New York Times Book Review This award-winning work by Margaret Visser is a wry and remarkable exploration of the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Visser takes on the sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizations of ancient Greece and medieval Europe to the ancient Ainu...
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Una fantastica novela espacial en español para niños de 9 a 12 años, escrita con un rigor increÍble, que permite conocer el sistema solar de una forma envidiable. La basura contamina mares y rÍos. El humo de las fabricas y los coches vuelve el aire irrespirable. Los residuos nucleares ocupan mas y mas espacio y ponen en peligro la existencia de todos los seres vivos... Hasta que llega la hora de decir basta y encontrar una...
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Take a visual journey to Japan's vast northern island of Hokkaido.
This stunning guide covering all the places foreign and Japanese tourists alike find so fascinating here-spectacular volcanic landscapes, the world's best powder skiing, and some of Japan's most incredible food.
Author Aaron Jamieson is a professional photographer, filmmaker, and journalist who has lived on Hokkaido for more than a decade-devoting his time to seeking out the hidden...
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We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have survived although only in small pockets throughout the world. This book explores a selection of those languages. Did you know that some people believe that the speakers of Burushaski, the language of a distant valley below the Himalayas, are actually the descendants of the soldiers of Alexander the Great? And, that even though the Venetian...
10) Japan
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Explore Japanese society in the lively series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.
Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its "post-human" megacities. The...
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The Heirs of Sarah is a fictional series with historical, sci-fi and fantasy elements. Goddess Queen Hadiat (Sarah Baartman) and god King Jasir Amare incur a prophesied tragedy which causes them to lose their triplet heiresses. The Heiresses are separated amongst various Believing tribes and centuries later their descendants are tasked with realignment to their rightful thrones. The first installment, Ending to Begin, centers around the descended...
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As in his previous films, Dr. Merry brings more than his expertise as an archaeologist/anthropologist to this video. He was stationed in Japan, and his wife, Telse, who speaks fluently Japanese, lived there for several years. By driving the length and breadth of the country, they captured on film the traditions and the pageantry that are inseparable from everyday life in Japan. In Tokyo, Dr. Merry had the rare privilege of being invited to film the...
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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a native of Japan, is Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among her works are Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation and Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View (both Cambridge).
This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth...
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Discover the transformative lessons from one of humanity's oldest teachers-the wolf-with this enthralling and accessible guidebook to help us restore our connection with nature, our communities, and our deepest selves.
The wolf has enthralled humankind for millennia, as a creature to be both feared and admired. It is the focus of countless myths around the world, in cultures as varied as the Ainu people of Japan to the Apache First Nation elders...
15) The Nine: Anker
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Enter into a blue-green new world of adventure, lasting friendships, loves and the transformation of nine young people into super responsible parents, leaders and inconspicuous owners of some of the biggest companies on the planet, organized to take on the mighty rich financial and arms manufacturing cabals ruining Earth's biodiversity with their greed.
You will eventually meet all nine group members, as in benign obscurity, they manage to acquire...
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“Small societies” are the surviving peoples of ancient, indigenous cultures that now exist in and around modern nation-states; Eskimos, Lapps, the Dayak people of Borneo (Indonesia), and the Ainu people of northern Japan are just a few examples. Typically these are tribes of hunters, gatherers, or perhaps agricultural or pastoral peoples; most of humanity once lived in ways that resemble the ways of today's small societies. Though indigenous...
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Origins.-The Japanese are in the main a continental race. Their language and physical characteristics show conclusively that they come from Northern Asia, and geographical considerations indicate that Korea must have been their point of embarkation. Indeed a desultory emigration from Korea to Japan continued into historical times. When we say Northern Asia we exclude China. The racial affinity of the Japanese to the Chinese, of which we hear so often,...
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