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Article: Osteo-hermeneutics: Ainu racialization, de-indigenization, and bone theft in Japanese Hokkaido

TitleOsteo-hermeneutics: Ainu racialization, de-indigenization, and bone theft in Japanese Hokkaido
Authors
KeywordsAinu
bone theft
craniometry
Hokkaido
Japan
physical anthropology
Issue Date2020
Citation
Settler Colonial Studies, 2020, v. 10, n. 3, p. 295-310 How to Cite?
AbstractThis article analyzes the late nineteenth century Euro-Japanese desecration of Ainu graves across the island of Hokkaido. Stolen Ainu crania were utilized by Japanese physical anthropologists such as Koganei Yoshikiyo and Kodama Sakuzaemon to define a ‘pure’ Ainu race. Amidst the ongoing dispossession of Ainu land and resources, these scholars deemed the increasingly racially mixed Ainu population ‘impure’, and thereby non-Ainu. Some, using ‘specimens’ of Ainu crania as evidence, displaced the racial origins of the Ainu outside of the space of their colonized homeland. Such scholarly research collectively ‘de-indigenized’ the Ainu and, by consequence, worked to reaffirm Japanese claims of Hokkaido as terra nullius (ownerless land). Accordingly, exogenous claims of ownership of both Ainu land and Ainu bodies were inextricably linked in the Japanese colonization of Hokkaido.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/330634
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dc.contributor.authorRoellinghoff, Michael-
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-05T12:12:31Z-
dc.date.available2023-09-05T12:12:31Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationSettler Colonial Studies, 2020, v. 10, n. 3, p. 295-310-
dc.identifier.issn2201-473X-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/330634-
dc.description.abstractThis article analyzes the late nineteenth century Euro-Japanese desecration of Ainu graves across the island of Hokkaido. Stolen Ainu crania were utilized by Japanese physical anthropologists such as Koganei Yoshikiyo and Kodama Sakuzaemon to define a ‘pure’ Ainu race. Amidst the ongoing dispossession of Ainu land and resources, these scholars deemed the increasingly racially mixed Ainu population ‘impure’, and thereby non-Ainu. Some, using ‘specimens’ of Ainu crania as evidence, displaced the racial origins of the Ainu outside of the space of their colonized homeland. Such scholarly research collectively ‘de-indigenized’ the Ainu and, by consequence, worked to reaffirm Japanese claims of Hokkaido as terra nullius (ownerless land). Accordingly, exogenous claims of ownership of both Ainu land and Ainu bodies were inextricably linked in the Japanese colonization of Hokkaido.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofSettler Colonial Studies-
dc.subjectAinu-
dc.subjectbone theft-
dc.subjectcraniometry-
dc.subjectHokkaido-
dc.subjectJapan-
dc.subjectphysical anthropology-
dc.titleOsteo-hermeneutics: Ainu racialization, de-indigenization, and bone theft in Japanese Hokkaido-
dc.typeArticle-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/2201473X.2020.1760432-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85085891267-
dc.identifier.volume10-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.identifier.spage295-
dc.identifier.epage310-
dc.identifier.eissn1838-0743-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000538902800001-

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