The author synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organizing to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and how they also fashion lived connections to ancestral v…
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Style -- Introduction: Contemporary Self-Craft and Gendered Practices -- 1: Indigenous Modernity -- 2: Contemporary Practice and Contested Heritage -- 3: The Clamor of Our Blood: The Po…
The author synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organizing to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and how they also fashion lived connections to ancestral v…