TAILIEUCHUNG - Handbook of Japanese Mythology phần 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'handbook of japanese mythology phần 3', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 62 Handbook of Japanese Mythology Hokkaido the Ainu came once again under cultural demographic and political pressure from the Japanese in the nineteenth century when Hokkaido was opened to Japanese settlement. They have today virtually disappeared as a distinct culture. Remnant communities maintain some aspects of the culture notably for the tourist trade. Those tracing themselves to Ainu descent today number around 18 000. The Ainu were an element in the much larger circumpolar arctic culture. Their economy was based on a mix of gathering and hunting with some subsistence farming of millet until forced to abandon their practices by the Japanese and become full-time farmers. An important element in their political economy was sea-borne trade and their large clinker-built boats plied the waters between the northeast Asian islands and possibly the mainland as well. In this they were not unlike their cultural relatives in Siberia and Tunguska in Asia and the Northwest Coast cultures of North America. A warlike people the Ainu struggled against their Sea People neighbors probably members of what anthropologists call Okhotskian Culture who inhabited the island chains to the north of Hokkaido and later against the Japanese who subdued them only in the eighteenth century. Many Ainu myths tell of struggles against the Sea People or of the treachery of the Japanese to whom the Ainu turned for valued goods such as lacquerware and metalwork. Politically the Ainu were organized into small bands or communities of about a hundred people divided into several households. These communities laid claim to a kotan or domain where they and only they exercised the right to hunt fish and gather. Each kotan was centered on a river valley running up to the ridges between. Raiding and conflict were to judge by the evidence of the sagas quite common. Communities were generally quite isolated from one another though the need to marry outside one s matrilineage brought about a certain amount

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