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The Aino (Ainu?) are the culture on the northernmost Japanese island, and this is a collection of their folk tales. These were first written down in 1888 shortly after the first (or one of the first) missions to study them as a culture. The stories were transcribed exactly as they were heard or remembered, without the Westernizing and ...Victorian-izing you often get in early English translations--basically many of the stories are crude or dirty and not something you want to read your kids (though they are rather hilarious since you so rarely see stories about people having genitals on their foreheads and so forth)Unfortunately, while the stories were ten kinds of awesome, the introduction and the preface to the stories were horrible. The writers of them (one being the 'author' himself!) missed no chance to tell us how uncultured, disgusting and louse-ridden the Aino were, and how they stole everything from Japan or maybe a bit from Russia. Allow me to quote: "Aino stories and Aino conversation are the intellectual counterpart of the dirt, the lice, and the skin-diseases which cover Aino bodies." And that was merely one quote among many. Aside from this undisguised racism, the intro talks about how the Aino need to be studied more in depth, which they have been since, and it mentions a bit about the authenticity of the sources, which might be useful if that's what you're after, but otherwise I strongly suggest you skip the intro and the preface.
There are 54 stories in the book, ranging in length from one paragraph to a few pages, and in subject from fairy-tale-like stories to myths. There's no active table of contents, although there are a few active notes here and there. Page numbers remain in the text.
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Aino FolkTales edition by Basil Hall Chamberlain Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Strange tale of the indigenous people of Japan. These are really strange and far-fetched.
Some of the tales are pretty weird, but I guess that's to be expected from folktales. The little book is put together and has some useful comments from the editor. It's worth reading if you're interested in the Ainu and/or folklore.
Some really strange folktales. Wonder how they came up with some of the stuff. I know many folktales are based on truth , but some of this stuff defies the imagination.
and has no basis in reality.
When a folklorist apparently despises the people whose stories he collected? Given that the reason he collected stories to serve as a linguistic exercise, the whole project is definitely odd. Still, there are some interesting stories in here, even if the writing is poor.
The Aino (Ainu?) are the culture on the northernmost Japanese island, and this is a collection of their folk tales. These were first written down in 1888 shortly after the first (or one of the first) missions to study them as a culture. The stories were transcribed exactly as they were heard or remembered, without the Westernizing and ...Victorian-izing you often get in early English translations--basically many of the stories are crude or dirty and not something you want to read your kids (though they are rather hilarious since you so rarely see stories about people having genitals on their foreheads and so forth)
Unfortunately, while the stories were ten kinds of awesome, the introduction and the preface to the stories were horrible. The writers of them (one being the 'author' himself!) missed no chance to tell us how uncultured, disgusting and louse-ridden the Aino were, and how they stole everything from Japan or maybe a bit from Russia. Allow me to quote "Aino stories and Aino conversation are the intellectual counterpart of the dirt, the lice, and the skin-diseases which cover Aino bodies." And that was merely one quote among many. Aside from this undisguised racism, the intro talks about how the Aino need to be studied more in depth, which they have been since, and it mentions a bit about the authenticity of the sources, which might be useful if that's what you're after, but otherwise I strongly suggest you skip the intro and the preface.
There are 54 stories in the book, ranging in length from one paragraph to a few pages, and in subject from fairy-tale-like stories to myths. There's no active table of contents, although there are a few active notes here and there. Page numbers remain in the text.
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