Rice As Self Japanese Identities Through Time

Name: Rice As Self Japanese Identities Through Time
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ISBN: 9780691021102

ISBN-10: 0691021104

ISBN-13: 9780691021102

Edition: 1993

Authors: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

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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 Selfexamines 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…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/4/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.066
Language: English