Skin as a Metaphor: Early European Racial Views on Japan,1548--1853.
Examines the evolution of the European discourse on the Japanese race from the time the first Europeans had landed in the archipelago in the mid-sixteenth century to the end of Japan's isolation in the mid-nineteenth century. Physical features of the Japanese; Important criterion for rudimentary eth...
| Publicado en: | Ethnohistory Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 751 - 779 |
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Duke University Press
Fall2004
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| Sumario: | Examines the evolution of the European discourse on the Japanese race from the time the first Europeans had landed in the archipelago in the mid-sixteenth century to the end of Japan's isolation in the mid-nineteenth century. Physical features of the Japanese; Important criterion for rudimentary ethnic construction; Racial conceptualization as the limit of perception; Birth of a racial discourse. |
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