AECIAT
CAS22/00276
The specific goals are: First, tracing the origin and international circulation of this material. Second, proposing more accurate categorisations (some of the images catalogued as “Ainu” at the British Museum are in fact are not Ainu). Third, examining what these study objects inform us about the Ainu culture as well as what they hide (their cultural, social spiritual meaning, process of cultural assimilation, miscegenation, hybridity and modernisation). Fourth, contextualising the images in the moment in which they were produced and purchased, examining what they inform and hide about social environment of the time. Sixth, casting light into how the Ainu imaginary was, to a great extent, created from outside. Seventh, providing theoretical and epistemological keys to rethink new strategies of cultural promotion of minorities today.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo
- PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
Ministry of Universities