Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time (Princeton Paperbacks)
Honorable Mention for the 1993 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Sociology and Anthropology, Association of American Publishers"As in [Ohnuki-Tierney's]Monkey as Mirror,where she follows her metaphor deep into the prejudices of Japanese society, so she here finds that rice has been given a major role in historical formulation of the idea of self. . . . Beautifully, even elegantly, presented. . . . An important volume which traces this chosen means of identity and makes understandable the various anomalies that it would seem to have occasioned."--Donald Richie,The Japan Times"An important and timely book on the Japanese sense of self and the link to the sacredness of rice agriculture."--Drew Gerstle,The Times Higher Education Supplement