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Title: A fundamentally dishonest book
Review: The title of my review is 'a fundamentally dishonest book'...and it is.This book is a collection of articles by various authors on the subject of the Ainu people.There is a political orientation to this book.The editors,and many of the authors,make much effort to debunk 'the Caucasoid theory'.While there are a great many photographs of Caucasian looking Ainu people in existence from a century ago,there are very few such photos in this book,and I believe that is a very deliberate choice by the editors.Many of the authors make reference to the Ainu as having Caucasian appearance and yet the reader is left wondering what they are referring to when in the book nearly all of the pictures of Ainu are of Mongoloid appearance (these Ainu are obviously mixed with Japanese).
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