Who are "Senjumin"-: A New Perspective for Indigenous Peoples and Japanese in the Globalizing World from the viewpoint of Comparative Literature Studies

要回答这个问题，我们必须重新考虑文明、民族/族群、进步等概念，以及在欧洲中心主义世界观强烈但不完全的影响下，现代日本种族和民族观念的复杂性。本研究项目采用实地调查和文学文本分析相结合的方法，侧重于每个个体的声音，而不是倾向于抽象的理论概念讨论：在加勒比地区的采访和Jean Rhys对加勒比人和日本人的作品，在澳大利亚土著社区的采访和对他们的“秘密神圣物品”的辩论，目前的阿伊努文化遗产，以及在印度，塔希提岛，马提尼克岛和爱沙尼亚的研究，都被提及，试图为绝对他者概念的政治和时间本质积累有用的证据。

Who are "Senjumin" Can this Japanese term be regarded as equal to "indigenous peoples" in, for example, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples To answer this question, one has to reconsider the concepts such as civilization, nation/ethnic group, progress, and the complexity of modern Japanese ideas of race and ethnicity under the strong but not complete influence of Eurocentric view of the world. Using both field research and analysis of literary text, this research project was carried out focusing on each individual voices instead of inclining to abstract discussion of theoretical concepts: interviews in Carib Territory and works of Jean Rhys with both Caribs and Japanese, interviews in Australian Aboriginal communities and debates over their "secret sacred objects," Present Ainu cultural heritage, as well as researches in India, Tahiti, Martinique and Estonia were referred to, in an attempt to accumulate usefulevidences for the political and tempo rly nature of the concept of absolute Others.