Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time

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Princeton University Press, 14 nov 1994 - 200 pagine

Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.

 

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Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney,大貫恵美子
Anteprima limitata - 1993

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Informazioni sull'autore (1994)

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is Vilas Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among her works is The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual (Princeton).

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloRice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time
AutoreEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Edizioneillustrata
EditorePrinceton University Press, 1994
ISBN1400820979, 9781400820979
Lunghezza200 pagine
  
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