| Brand new. We distribute directly for the publisher. Cloth. Octavo. xii, 448 pp. Profusely Illustrated. This is a companion volume to Batchelor's, Ainu of Japan [1892] reprinted by Martino Fine Books in 1999. The Ainu are aboriginal people of Asia, chiefly occupying parts of the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the Russian islands of the Kurils and Sakhalin. The Ainu are thought to be descended from ancient circumpolar people who were gradually driven north on the Japanese archipelago by invaders now know as the Japanese. The Ainu were up until recently one of the last remaining hunter-gatherers in the Far East. The Reverend Batchelor was a long time missionary and resident among the Ainu. His pioneer work is considered a classic in the field. His is the first reliable treatment of the Ainu by a Westerner. His is an important and valuable contribution to anthropology. The work is illustrated with circa 94 illustrations. We have rescanned the illustrations to make the reproductions in our edition as faithful to the original as possible. Color illustrations are reproduced in black and white. |
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