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Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands 9780824864194

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Japanese Ethnicity: Histories of a Concept
2. Tales Told in a Dream
Part II. The Yayoi and the Formation of the Japanese
3. Biological Anthropology and the Dual-Structure Hypothesis
4. The Linguistic Archaeology of the Japanese Islands
5. From Jōmon to Yayoi: The Archaeology of the First Japanese
6. An Emerging Synthesis?
Part III. Post-Yayoi Interaction and Ethnogenesis
7. Ethnicity and the Ancient State
8. The Unbroken Forest?
9. Japanese Ethnicity Some Final Thoughts
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography

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