The divine in Ainu narratives

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/ej.v0i42.172450

Keywords:

Ainu, Divine, Kamui, Traditional narratives, Myth

Abstract

The Ainu are an indigenous people traditionally inhabited by northern Japan (Hokkaido Island), as well as the Kurile and Sahkalin islands. They have a well-defined culture, as well as a language other than Japanese (known as Ainu Itak) and a rich repertoire of oral literature. This work intends to identify some characteristics that present the stories in the form of verse or prose, when these have as main personages the entities, known by the name of kamui.

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Author Biographies

  • Luana Bueno Barbosa Cyríaco da Silva, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brasil

    Graduada em Artes Visuais - Licenciatura pela Universidade Norte do Paraná (UNOPAR) e graduanda em Letras - Japonês na Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR); luacyriaco@gmail.com

  • Márcia Hitomi Namekata, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brasil

    Professora Titular na área de Língua e Literatura Japonesa do Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras Modernas (DELEM) da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brasil; Doutora em Letras (Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada) pela Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e Pós-Doutorado em Letras (Língua, Literatura e Cultura Japonesa) pela Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (USP); marcianamekata@gmail.com

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Published

2019-11-10

Issue

No. 42 (2019)

Section

Papers

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Copyright (c) 2021 Luana Bueno Barbosa Cyríaco da Silva, Márcia Hitomi Namekata

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

The divine in Ainu narratives. (2019). Estudos Japoneses, 42, 129-143. https://doi.org/10.11606/ej.v0i42.172450