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...talking about today's Caucasians. I'm saying they had 'Caucasoid-like' characteristics. There's a big difference." Says Owsley: "[Kennewick Man] is not North American looking, and he's not tied in to Siberian or Northeast Asian populations. He looks more Polynesian or more like the Ainu [an ethnic group that is now found only in northern Japan but in prehistoric times lived throughout coastal areas of eastern Asia] or southern Asians...
...report brought to mind the hurtful results of cruel policies toward minorities. The issue of the terrible treatment of the Aborigines is one not only for Australians but also for the rest of us. There are examples in the behavior of the Asian people in wartime and toward the Ainu, Hokkaido's distinctive people who have been supplanted by the Japanese. SHIRO MATSUMOTO Chiba, Japan...
...mists of prehistory. In trying to reconstruct the "ancestral environment," evolutionary psychologists analyze the nearest approximations available--the sort of technologically primitive societies that the Una bomber extols. The most prized examples are the various hunter-gatherer societies that anthropologists have studied this century, such as the Ainu of Japan, the !Kung San of southern Africa and the Ache of South America. Also valuable are societies with primitive agriculture in the few cases where--as with some Yanomamo villages in Venezuela--they lack the contaminating contact with moderners that reduces the anthropological value of some hunter-gatherer societies...
...determination might now be the stronger. All over the world, ethnic movements are demanding and frequently getting their own turf, sometimes though not always complete with flag, army, currency and United Nations seat. The secessionist groups range in size from the 50 million citizens of Ukraine to 30,000 Ainu, descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of northern Japan. They demand "exclusive possession" of two or three small islands in the southern Kuriles -- also claimed by Moscow and Tokyo -- where they can cluster and preserve their culture...
...director's visit is his first to the United States. He is scheduled to lecture onseveral of his films, attend classes and meet withfaculty members, students, and Boston-areafilmmakers, He is accompanied on his tour byTadayoshi Himeda, a documentary filmmaker whosework on ritual and custom, particularly among thedwindling Ainu people of Hokkaido, has influencedImamura's work. Many of Himeda's films will alsobe screened by the archives...