Rice as Self - Couverture souple

Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691021104 ISBN 13 : 9780691021102

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691021104
• ISBN 13: 9780691021102
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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