{"product_id":"rice-as-self-japanese-identities-through-time-9780691021102","title":"Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre 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, \u003ci\u003eRice as Self\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney\u003c\/b\u003e is Vilas Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among her works is \u003ci\u003eThe Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514311020818,"sku":"9780691021102","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6cdb1ed1-1cf8-4e04-bf12-85f8ac448d37.jpg?v=1730979139","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rice-as-self-japanese-identities-through-time-9780691021102","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}