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