Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? And 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 conce...(展开全部)

大贯惠美子（Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney），威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校人类学系教授，以历史人类学、象征人类学见长。早年研究底特律的华人，后转向阿伊努人，再转向日本人。美国艺术与科学院院士，多次获古根海姆等其他学术奖。主要作品有：《神风特攻队日记：反思日本学生兵》（2006）；《神风特攻队、樱花与民族主义：日本历史上美学的军国主义化》（2002）；《作为自我的稻米：日本人穿越时间的身份认同》（1993）；《穿越时间的文化：人类学的路径》（主编，1990）；《作为镜子的猴子：日本历史与仪式的转化》（1987）；《当代日本的疾病与文化：人类学的观点》（1984）；《萨哈林岛阿伊努人的疾病与治疗：一个象征解释》（1981）等。 石峰，人类学博士，贵州师范大学历史与政治学院教授。

Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversation...(展开全部)

Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversation...(展开全部)

This is a fascinating and diverse collection of images from the author's extensive photographic archive recalling Wigton's rich heritage both past and present. You will be taken on a journey through t

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How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation to make a case for por...(展开全部)