Embodying Difference First published in New Delhi by Navayana Publishing. Full description
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The burakumin Japan?s largest minority group have been the focus of an extensive yet strikingly homogeneous body of Japanese language research The master narrative in much of this work typically links burakumin to premodern occupational groups engaged in a number of socially polluting tasks like tanning and leatherwork This narrative when subjected to close scrutiny tends to raise more questions than it answers particularly for the historian Is there really firm historical continuity between premodern outcaste and modern burakumin communities Does the discrimination faced by these communities actually remain the same Does the way burakumin frame their own experience significantly affect mainstream understandings of their plightEmbodying Difference is the result of a decade-and-a-half-long search for answers to these questions Based on an extensive array of original archival material ethnographical research and critical historiographical work it argues that there needs to be a fundamental reconceptualization of the buraku problem for two main reasons First the master narrative is built on empirically and conceptually questionable foundations; and second mainstream accounts tend to overlook the important role burakumin and other interested parties play in the construction and maintenance of the narrative By continually drawing a straight line between premodern outcaste groups and today?s burakumin the Japanese government the general population scholars and burakumin activists tend to overlook some of the real changes that have often taken place both in who are identified as members of socially marginalized groups in Japan and how they experience that identification Clinging to this master narrative also restricts the ways in which burakumin can productively and more inclusively identify in the present to imagine a liberated future for themselves Amos? attempt to rethink the boundaries of buraku history and the category of the outcaste in Japan results in a compelling study that also offers us insights on how to comparatively frame the ?undeniably similar? dalit question 302 pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 95801
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