Rice as Self : Japanese Identities through Time.

Rice as Self : Japanese Identities through Time.

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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Main Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Japanese.
Rice > Social aspects > Japan.
Civilization
National characteristics, Japanese
Rice > Social aspects
Japan > Civilization.
Japan
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Summary: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, a.
Physical Description:1 online resource (198 pages)
ISBN:9781400820979
1400820979
1282751743
9781282751743
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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