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Rice as Self

By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Rice as Self

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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 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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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
1994-12-04
Publication Date:
1994-12-04
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691021104
ISBN13:
9780691021102
Weight:
298 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
12 cm

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