Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700711550
Category : Ainu
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Get Book

Book Description
This subset of the series 'The Ainu Library' presents early European works on the Ainu and their culture through descriptions and travelogues by early European visitors.

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700711550
Category : Ainu
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Get Book

Book Description
This subset of the series 'The Ainu Library' presents early European works on the Ainu and their culture through descriptions and travelogues by early European visitors.

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784931444256
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book

Book Description


Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415413916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book

Book Description
This collection includes rare records of the first European encounters with the Ainu: in the main, travelogues and descriptions of the people, their culture and distinctiveness. Many earlier works were published in limited quantity and in obscure places, and they are often hard to trace for a researcher today. Republication of early Western works will help scholars researching the Ainu, and will also be of interest to scholars of anthropology, religion, material culture, oral traditions, and linguistics.

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784931444256
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book

Book Description


Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book

Book Description


Early European Writings on Ainu Culture

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700714865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Get Book

Book Description
This work contains many texts on Ainu religious beliefs as seen through the eyes of foreign visitors to Hokkaido, translations or re-tellings of Ainu folk tales and other orally transmitted literature.

Early European Writings on the Ainu Language

Early European Writings on the Ainu Language PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415435116
Category : Ainu language
Languages : un
Pages :

Get Book

Book Description
A collection of the most important early works on the Ainu people of Japan, some extremely rare, from the 17th century onwards, with an extensive introduction by Professor Refsing (Author of Ainu Grammar). This collection would be of interest to the following research fields: linguistics, anthropology, religion, material culture and oral traditions. Subsequent collections in the Ainu Library will address culture, physical anthropology, and the genetic relationship controversy.

Early European writings on the Aïnu language

Early European writings on the Aïnu language PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ainu language
Languages : ru
Pages : 676

Get Book

Book Description
A collection of the most important early works on the Ainu people of Japan, some extremely rare, from the 17th century onwards, with an extensive introduction by Professor Refsing (Author of Ainu Grammar). This collection would be of interest to the following research fields: linguistics, anthropology, religion, material culture and oral traditions. Subsequent collections in the Ainu Library will address culture, physical anthropology, and the genetic relationship controversy.

Early European Writings on the Ainu Language

Early European Writings on the Ainu Language PDF Author: Kirsten Refsing
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780700704002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 3000

Get Book

Book Description
A collection of the most important early works on the Ainu people of Japan, some extremely rare, from the 17th century onwards, with an extensive introduction by Professor Refsing (Author of Ainu Grammar). This collection would be of interest to the following research fields: linguistics, anthropology, religion, material culture and oral traditions. Subsequent collections in the Ainu Library will address culture, physical anthropology, and the genetic relationship controversy.

Handbook of the Ainu Language

Handbook of the Ainu Language PDF Author: Anna Bugaeva
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501502859
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 742

Get Book

Book Description
The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the verge of extinction. Ainu was not a written language, but it possesses a huge documented stock of oral literature, yet is significantly under-described in terms of grammar. It is the only non-Japonic language of Japan and is typologically different not only from Japanese but also from other Northeast Asian languages. Revolving around but not confined to its head-marking and polysynthetic character, Ainu manifests many typologically interesting phenomena, related in particular to the combinability of various voice markers and noun incorporation. Other interesting features of Ainu include vowel co-occurrence restrictions, a mixed system of expressing grammatical relations, which includes the elements of a rare tripartite alignment, nominal classification distinguishing common and locative nouns, elaborate possessive classes, verbal number, a rich four-term evidential system, and undergrammaticalized aspect, which are all explained in the volume. This handbook, the result of unprecedented cooperation of the leading experts of Ainu, will definitely help to increase the clarity of our understanding of Ainu and in a long-term perspective may provide answers to problems of human prehistory as well as open the field of Ainu studies to the world and attract many new students. Table of Contents Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Preface Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Introduction to the Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics Contributors Anna Bugaeva Introduction I Overview of Ainu studies Anna Bugaeva 1. Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim Juha Janhunen 2. Ainu ethnic origins Tomomi Satō 3. Major old documents of Ainu and some problems in the historical study of Ainu Alfred F. Majewicz 4. Ainu language Western records José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente 5. The Ainu language through time Alexander Vovin 6. Ainu elements in early Japonic Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Itsuji Tangiku 7. Language contact in the north Hiroshi Nakagawa and Mika Fukazawa 8. Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects Itsuji Tangiku 9. Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu dialects Shiho Endō 10. Ainu oral literature Osami Okuda 11. Meter in Ainu oral literature Tetsuhito Ōno 12. The history and current status of the Ainu language revival movement II Typologically interesting characteristics of the Ainu language Hidetoshi Shiraishi 13. Phonetics and phonology Hiroshi Nakagawa 14. Parts of Speech – with a focus on the classification of nouns Anna Bugaeva and Miki Kobayashi 15. Verbal valency Tomomi Satō 16. Noun incorporation Hiroshi Nakagawa 17. Verbal number Yasushige Takahashi 18. Aspect and evidentiality Yoshimi Yoshikawa 19. Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of Ainu III Appendices: Sample texts Anna Bugaeva 20. An uwepeker “Retar Katak, Kunne Katak” and kamuy yukar “Amamecikappo” narrated in the Chitose Hokkaido Ainu dialect by Ito Oda Elia dal Corso 21. “Meko Oyasi”, a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama Subject index