@DebrisDiver There are some Japanese texts on cetaceans/animals in Ainu ritual. Do you read Japanese? Recent scholarship on Ainu in English includes works by lewallen, Watson, @BarbarianNiche (e.g. Beyond Ainu Studies). Start with @TristanGrunow et al, "H
@AikeRots Dr. Ishihara Mai is a cultural anthropologist at Hokudai who does really good auto-ethnographic work on people who learn later in life, as she did, that they have Ainu ethnicity. She writes about it in my co-edited #Hokkaido150 roundtable @Critic
RT @claraiwasaki: Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in modern Japan and Beyond by a number of authors including @TristanGru…
Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in modern Japan and Beyond by a number of authors including @TristanGrunow. One of the other reasons I started thinking about a class like this. https://t.co/KyiPzXsXdf