Bibliography of the Ainu

Historical extent of the Ainu.

This is a bibliography of works on the Ainu people of modern Japan and the Russian Far East.

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Overview

• Barbara Aoki Poisson (1 April 2002). The Ainu of Japan. Lerner Publications. ISBN 978-0-8225-4176-9.

Politics

• Richard Siddle (12 August 1996). Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-13228-2.
• Katarina Sjöberg (1 January 1993). The Return of the Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in Japan. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-3-7186-5401-7.

Anthropology

• John Batchelor (1892). The Ainu of Japan: The Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan. Religious Tract Society.
• A. H. Savage Landor (1893). Alone With the Hairy Ainu, or 3,800 Miles on a Pack Saddle In Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands. John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.
• John Batchelor (1901). The Ainu and Their Folk-lore. Religious Tract Society.
• Frederick Starr (1904). The Ainu group at the Saint Louis exposition. The Open court publishing company.
• Bronisław Piłsudski; Alfred F. Majewicz (1998). The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski: The aborigines of Sakhalin. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-010928-3.
• Takako Yamada (2001). The world view of the Ainu: nature and cosmos reading from language. Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7103-0732-3.
• Guy De La Rupelle (2005). Kayak And Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir: Among the Ainu of Hokkaido. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-34644-8.

History

• Christopher J. Frey (2007). Ainu Schools and Education Policy in Nineteenth-century Hokkaido, Japan. ProQuest. ISBN 978-0-549-35460-4.
• Fred C. C. Peng; Peter Geiser (1977). The Ainu, the past in the present. Bunka Hyoron.

Historiography

• Kirsten Refsing (8 November 2002). Early European Writings on Ainu Culture: Religion and Folklore. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-7007-1486-5.

Culture

• William W. Fitzhugh; Chisato O. Dubreuil; Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History) (1999). Ainu: spirit of a northern people. Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press.
• Patia M. Rosenberg (1967). Ainu Music: A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment ... for the Degree of Master of Arts in Far Eastern Studies. University of Michigan.
• Traditional Ainu Music. N.H.K. 1965.
• Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung. Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien (1993). European studies on Ainu language and culture. Iudicium-Verl.
• Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (31 August 1981). Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-23636-2.
• Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (1974). The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-006926-0.
• John Batchelor; Kingo Miyabe (1898). Ainu economic plants.
• Matsu Kannari. Kutune Shirka, The Ainu Epic. Forgotten Books. ISBN 978-1-60620-098-8.
• Neil Gordon Munro (February 1979). Ainu, creed and cult. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-21151-5.

Language

• John Batchelor (1908). An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, including A Grammar of the Ainu Language. Methodist Publishing House.
• Basil Hall Chamberlain; John Batchelor (1887). Ainu grammar. Imperial University.
• Hattori, Shirō, ed. (1964). An Ainu dialect dictionary (アイヌ語方言辞典 Ainugo hōgen jiten) [An Ainu dialect dictionary with Ainu, Japanese, and English indexes]. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten (岩波書店 Iwanami Shoten).
• Shigeru Kayano (萱野 茂 Kayano Shigeru) (October 2002). Shigeru Kayano's Ainu Dictionary (萱野茂のアイヌ語辞典 Kayano Shigeru no Ainugo Jiten) (in Japanese). Sanseido (三省堂 Sanseidō). ISBN 978-4-385-17052-7.
• Miller, Roy Andrew (1967). The Japanese Language. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle.
• Murasaki, Kyōko (1977). Karafuto Ainugo: Sakhalin Rayciska Ainu Dialect—Texts and Glossary. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai.
• Murasaki, Kyōko (1978). Karafuto Ainugo: Sakhalin Rayciska Ainu Dialect—Grammar. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai.
• Hiroshi Nakagawa (中川 裕 Nakagawa Hiroshi) (February 1995). Ainu (Chitosei Dialect) Dictionary (アイヌ語千歳方言辞典 Ainugo Chitosei Hōgo Jiten) [The Ainu-Japanese Dictionary, Chitosei Dialect] (in Japanese). Sofukan (草風館 Sōfūkan). ISBN 978-4-883-23078-5.
• Bronisław Piłsudski (1998). Alfred F. Majewicz, ed. The Aborigines of Sakhalin. The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski I. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 792. ISBN 3-11-010928-X.
• Refsing, Kirsten (1986). The Ainu Language: The Morphology and Syntax of the Shizunai Dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. ISBN 87-7288-020-1.
• Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). The Languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36918-5.
• Suzuko Tamura (田村 すず子 Tamura Suzuko) (August 1996). Ainu (Saru Dialect) Dictionary (アイヌ語沙流方言辞典 Ainugo Saru Hōgo Jiten) [The Ainu-Japanese Dictionary, Saru Dialect] (in Japanese). Sofukan (草風館 Sōfūkan). ISBN 978-4-883-23093-8.
• Tamura, Suzuko (2000). The Ainu Language. Tokyo: Sanseido. ISBN 4-385-35976-8.
• Vovin, Alexander (1992). "The origins of the Ainu language". The Third International Symposium on Language and Linguistics (Chulalongkorn University): 672–686.
• Vovin, Alexander (1993). A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-09905-0.
• Vovin, Alexander (August 1997). A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-9-004-09905-0.
• Vovin, Alexander (2008). "Man'yōshū to Fudoki ni Mirareru Fushigina Kotoba to Jōdai Nihon Retto ni Okeru Ainugo no Bunpu" [Strange Words in the Man'yoshū and the Fudoki and the Distribution of the Ainu Language in the Japanese Islands in Prehistory] (PDF). Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā.

Proposed classifications

• Bengtson, John D. (2006). "A multilateral look at Greater Austric". Mother Tongue 11: 219–258.
• Georg, Stefan; Michalove, Peter A.; Ramer, Alexis Manaster; Sidwell, Paul J. (1999). "Telling general linguists about Altaic". Journal of Linguistics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 35: 65–98. doi:10.1017/s0022226798007312.
• Greenberg, Joseph H. (2000–2002). Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3812-2.
• Patrie, James (1982). The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0724-3.
• Shafer, R. (1965). "Studies in Austroasian II". Studia Orientalia 30 (5).
• Street, John C. (1962). "Review of N. Poppe, Vergleichende Grammatik der altaischen Sprachen, Teil I (1960)". Language 38: 92–98. doi:10.2307/411195.

Articles

• Music of the Ainu in Canadian Folk Music Society; Simon Fraser University; University of British Columbia. Dept. of University Extension (1968). Proceedings. Government of the Province of British Columbia.
• Fresh Light on the Ainu in Sir Norman Lockyer (1894). Nature 49. Macmillan Journals Limited.
• The Inau Cult of the Ainu, Leo Sterns Erg, in H. A. Andrews (1906). Boas anniversary volume: anthropological papers written in honor of Franz Boas ... G.E. Stechert & Co.

See also

• Filmography of the Ainu