Rice as Self : : Japanese Identities through Time / / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 5 halftones 6 tables

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- One. Food as a Metaphor of Self: An Exercise in Historical Anthropology -- Two. Rice and Rice Agriculture Today -- Three. Rice as a Staple Food? -- Four. Rice in Cosmogony and Cosmology CLEARLY, -- Five. Rice as Wealth, Power, and Aesthetics -- Six. Rice as Self, Rice Paddies as Our Land -- Seven. Rice in the Discourse of Selves and Others -- Eight. Foods as Selves and Others in Cross-cultural Perspective -- Nine. Symbolic Practice through Time: Self, Ethnicity, and Nationalism -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index