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Format: 1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition: Course Book

ISBN: 1-282-75174-3 , 9786612751745 , 1-4008-2097-9

Content: 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.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , A Note to the Reader -- , One. Food as a Metaphor of Self: An Exercise in Historical Anthropology -- , Two. Rice and Rice Agriculture Today -- , Three. Rice as a Staple Food? -- , Four. Rice in Cosmogony and Cosmology CLEARLY, -- , Five. Rice as Wealth, Power, and Aesthetics -- , Six. Rice as Self, Rice Paddies as Our Land -- , Seven. Rice in the Discourse of Selves and Others -- , Eight. Foods as Selves and Others in Cross-cultural Perspective -- , Nine. Symbolic Practice through Time: Self, Ethnicity, and Nationalism -- , Notes -- , References Cited -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-02110-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400820979

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Format: 1 online resource (200p.)

ISBN: 9781400820979

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , A Note to the Reader -- , One. Food as a Metaphor of Self: An Exercise in Historical Anthropology -- , Two. Rice and Rice Agriculture Today -- , Three. Rice as a Staple Food? -- , Four. Rice in Cosmogony and Cosmology CLEARLY, -- , Five. Rice as Wealth, Power, and Aesthetics -- , Six. Rice as Self, Rice Paddies as Our Land -- , Seven. Rice in the Discourse of Selves and Others -- , Eight. Foods as Selves and Others in Cross-cultural Perspective -- , Nine. Symbolic Practice through Time: Self, Ethnicity, and Nationalism -- , Notes -- , References Cited -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400820979

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820979

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Format: 1 online resource (198 pages)

ISBN: 9781400820979

Content: In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. Zen Baggage is an account of that journey. He weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, and translations of the earliest known records of Zen, along with personal vignettes. Porter's account captures the transformations taking place at religious centers in China but also the abiding legacy they have somehow managed to preserve. Porter brings wisdom and humor to every situation, whether visiting ancient caves containing the most complete collection of Buddhist texts ever uncovered, enduring a six-hour Buddhist ceremony, searching in vain for the ghost in his room, waking up the monk in charge of martial arts at Shaolin Temple, or meeting the abbess of China's first Zen nunnery. Porter's previously published Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits has become recommended reading at Zen centers and universities throughout America and even in China (in its Chinese translation), and Zen Baggage is sure to follow suit.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691021102

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691021102

Language: English

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