... on Japan showed a growing interest in the racial make-up of the Japanese. As a whole, the racial perspectives on Japan were only an offshoot of a greater discourse, a new scientific worldview that placed mankind within a broader natural system and classified human variety in term of unequal races...

... considers how and why the music of indigenous Bolivians is meaningful for mestizo Bolivian musicians who tour Japan and for the Japanese consumers and producers to whom they market their redeployment of “someone else’s music” (2). A project that grew out of several years of fieldwork in Japan and Bolivia...

...- sary, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. $60.00 paper.) Blackness without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil. By Livio Sansone. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xviii + 248 pp., introduction, illus- trations, bibliography, index. $45.00 paper.) Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians...

..., bibliography, index. $45.00 paper.) Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism. Edited by Jeffrey Lesser. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. xii + 219 pp., introduction, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $21.95 paper. $74.95 cloth.) No One Home: Brazilian Selves...

... (because over half the book is about them), the Japanese. The author’s concern is with the construction of ‘‘hyphen- ated ethnicities’’ among these groups in their struggles to find a place in Brazilian society. Using...

... Falk 1986 Social Facts and Fabrications: “Customary” Law on Kilimanjaro,1880-1980. Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko 1987 The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual. Princeton, NJ: Princeton...

... of an encounter with these women is found in the autobiography written in the third person by the Japanese captain Jukichi, who was shipwrecked in 1814 and rescued by a British ship in 1815. Jukichi arrived at Novo-­Arkhangel’sk in July of that year, where he met Baranov. Jukichi was received expansively...

... casting the otter fur trade as a trans-Pacific event. Ravalli notes that the animals, of the species Enhydra lustis , have recently become media darlings for their adorable looks and behavior, but the earlier exploitation of their furs by Russian, Japanese, Spanish, English, and US hunters played...

.... The neighborhoods depicted include Dilao, which was primarily inhabited by Japanese and Japanese-­indigenous residents; Bagumbaya an indigenous community; and the Parian, the largest concentration of Chinese residents. On the other side of the river, are Estacada, Binondo, and Quiapo (these last two communi...

... their language but were unable to do so. When the European theater of the war ended, Harjo and MacIn- tosh were assigned to study Japanese in preparation for being assigned to the Pacific theater of operations. They were studying at a language school in Paris when the Japanese surrendered in August 1945...

... 1990 Introduction: The Historicization of Anthropology. In Culture through Time:Anthropological Approaches . Ohnuki Tierney ed. Pp. 1 -25. Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press. 1993 Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time . Princeton, nj: Princeton University Press. Okpewho...

... as a political entity. Finally, Denson focuses on efforts in the 1980s and 1990s to create the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. The project sprung from National Park Service efforts to commemorate “negative” histories across America. But, unlike interpretations of slavery or Japanese internment...

... his book in their library on their next voyage to confront Japanese whalers in the Antarctic Ocean, though I think they should, and also share it with the crew of the Nisshin Maru . They could all stand to learn something about history, indigeneity, and sovereignty. Reid’s analytic metaphors...

... categorical 174 Robert J. Foster distinctions between the indigenous and the foreign. Thus, for example, the Japanese employ a pragmatically flexible but nonetheless unambigu- ous linguistic distinction between things Japanese (wa) and things Western (yo...

... or exclusively on free populations and were fundamental to drawing scholarly attention to this understudied diasporaic movement (Slack 2012 ). In this formulation, Asians like the Japanese Juan de Páez—majordomo of Guadalajara’s cathedral—exemplified the exceptional social mobility of exceptional migrants...

...- nese, Japanese, and indigenous peoples who flowed across them regularly, Leibsohn demonstrates that “maps create—and do not merely record—the ideological and lived possibilities of civic space.” The institutionalization of civic space represented a principal concern of Spanish colonization...

...- tantism (72–104). Their isolationist tendencies, the tightness of their immi- grant networks, and their unwillingness to mingle or cooperate with other Hispanic and Caribbean groups leads one to compare the Brazilian immi- grant with the Japanese, Korean, Indian, or even Eastern European immi- grant...

... and for indexing the presence of other groups such as the arrival of Japanese to Mexico City in 1610, the threat of English pirates in 1615, and the presence of negros , mulatos , and moriscos in colonial Mexico. The plurivocal Nahua archive assembled by Chimalpahin is not simply a repository of the past...

... identity, rated by the number of racially marked tons expected per day: “Americans loaded ten tons per day, Blacks eight tons, Italians six tons, Japanese five tons, Chinese four tons, and Mexicans only two tons.”11 Zapo- tec miners ranked even below “Mexicans.” Similarly, Zapotec textile factory...

... Geschichte in Afrika 4 : 7 -40. Lefebvre, Henri 1984 The Production of Space . Donaldson Nicholson-Smith, trans. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Obeyesekere, Gananath 1992 The Apotheosis of Captain Cook . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko 1993 Rice as Self: Japanese...