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Author(s): Timothy Amos
ISBN(s): 9780429863035, 0429863039
Edition: 1
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Year: 2019
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0429863039 
ISBN 13: 9780429863035
Author: Timothy Amos

“Caste”, a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos argues that time for reappraisal is well overdue and that a combination of ideas, beliefs, and practices rooted in Confucian, Buddhist, Shinto, and military traditions were brought together from the late 16th century in ways that influenced the development of institutions and social structures on the Japanese archipelago. These influences brought the social structures closer in form and substance to certain caste formations found in the Indian subcontinent during the same period. Specifically, Amos analyses the evolution of the so-called Danzaemon outcaste order. This order was a 17th century caste configuration produced as a consequence of early modern Tokugawa rulers’ decisions to engage in a state-building project rooted in military logic and built on the back of existing manorial and tribal-class arrangements. He further examines the history behind the primary duties expected of outcastes within the Danzaemon order: notably execution and policing, as well as leather procurement. Reinterpreting Japan as a caste society, this book propels us to engage in fuller comparisons of how outcaste communities’ histories and challenges have diverged and converged over time and space, and to consider how better to eradicate discrimination based on caste logic. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese History, Culture and Society.

Caste in Early Modern Japan Danzaemon and the Edo Outcaste Order 1st Table of contents:

1 The caste experience of early modern Japanese outcastes
Introduction
Outcaste governance in eastern Japan
Identifying the nature of outcaste rule in early modern eastern Japan
Status and caste
Caste in early modern Japan: hierarchy and scapegoats
Conclusions
2 The emergence of the Edo outcaste order and Danzaemon rule
Introduction
Pre-Tokugawa legacies
The workplace
The 16th century context
Origins of Danzaemon rule
Seventeenth century developments
Systemization of the status system
Conclusions
3 The ideological construction of eta
Introduction
Note on pollution ideology
Late 17th century ideas of pollution
Late 18th century developments
Intensification of pollution ideology in the 19th century
Samurai mimicry and Sanskritization
Conclusions
4 Danzaemon and the political economy of crucifixion
Introduction
Early Tokugawa crucifixion
Danzaemon and crucifixion in early Tokugawa times
Eighteenth century transformations
Social distancing, symbolic power, outcaste economies
Conclusions
5 Eta governance, hinin, and the policing of the poor
Introduction
The early 18th century hinin independence movement
Eighteenth century development of unregistered policing and hinin rule
Late 18th century regional developments
Early 19th century, the Tenpō famine, and outcaste poverty relief
Conclusions
6 Transformations in urban outcaste space in Edo/Tokyo
Introduction
Early history: urbanization and status rule
Growing labour specialization, capital concentration, and cultural endeavours
Late Tokugawa/early Meiji transformation of Shinchō
Conclusions
7 Outcaste status and the leather monopoly
Introduction
Danzaemon’s place in the early modern leather trade
Official duties and commercial developments
Complications and competition in outcaste production

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