Ainu 2009-2013

Centeno, Marcos; Liverani, Laura

Abstract

The Ainu, the native people of Japan, were officially recognized as an ethnicity in 2008, after more than a century of discrimination and oppression which almost completely effaced their language, society and culture. Today several individuals and groups across Japan are involved in Ainu rights, cultural revitalization and diffusion. This photographic series explores contemporary Ainu identity and culture, focusing on representation and self-representation of the Ainu, both within institutions such as museums and outside, in everyday's life practices. The work, still in progress, started in 2009 and aims at raising questions about a culture in the process of changing and redefining itself.
Laura Liverani

Citation

Centeno, M., & Liverani, L. Ainu 2009-2013. [Photography Exhibition]. 14 October 2013 - 24 October 2013. (Unpublished)

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Oct 14, 2013
• End Date: Oct 24, 2013
• Deposit Date: Sep 1, 2015
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Photography Exhibition also held at: -Hall of Facultat Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, University of Valencia, 9-16 December 2013