Cultural genocide and Asian state peripheries

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Cultural genocide and Asian state peripheries

edited by Barry Sautman

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This volume engages the concept and related notions of cultural hegemony, cultural erosion, cultural hybridity and cultural survival by considering whether five regimes in Asia deploy policies aimed at extirpating the language, religion, arts, customs or other elements of the cultures of non-dominant peoples.

Table of Contents

  • Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries
  • B.Sautman Redefining the Past, Taking Charge of the Present, Appropriating the Future: the Hokkaido Ainu Case
  • K. Sjoberg From Forced Assimilation to Cultural Revitalization: Taiwan's Aborigines Role in Taiwan Nativism
  • M.Rudolph West Papua: The Discourse of Cultural Genocide and Conflict Resolution
  • J.O.Ondawame Educating the Naga Headhunters: Colonial History and Cultural Hegemony in Post-Colonial India
  • D.Kikon Tibet and the (Mis-)Representation of Cultural Genocide
  • B.Sautman

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