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Rice as Self
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 …
Kamikaze Diaries
We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock …
The Monkey as Mirror
This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. …
Monkey as Mirror
This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. …
Rice as Self
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 …
Flowers That Kill
Flowers are beautiful. People often communicate their love, sorrow, and other feelings to each other by offering flowers, like roses. Flowers can also be symbols of collective …
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition - operates on several different levels. In this …
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu
Originally published in 1981, this book explores the issue of how a society understands human illness in the absence of a germ theory. This is done through an interpretation of the …
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
Why did almost one thousand highly educated "e;student soldiers"e; volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though …
Kamikazes, fleurs de cerisiers et nationalisme
La guerre du Pacifique s’est finie tragiquement avec l’opération Tokkotai, sans précédent dans l’histoire, qui a envoyé des milliers de jeunes hommes à la mort. Parmi eux, environ …
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
Why did almost 1000 highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's kamikaze operations at the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? This …
Kamikaze Diaries
"e;We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock …