Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan Volume 13

by Joseph D. Hankins

Book Overview

Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's "Buraku" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of associations with labor considered unclean, such as leather and meat production. That labor, however, is vanishing from Japan: Liberalized markets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283295
• ISBN13: 9780520283299
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"