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Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time

By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
9781400820979
DOI
10.1515/9781400820979
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1186630 bytes)
Edition
Course Book
Pages
200\197
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 16:49:22

Description

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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