Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note to the Reader xii
5. One. Food as a Metaphor of Self: An Exercise in Historical Anthropology 1
6. Two. Rice and Rice Agriculture Today 12
7. Three. Rice as a Staple Food? 30
8. Four. Rice in Cosmogony and Cosmology CLEARLY, 44
9. Five. Rice as Wealth, Power, and Aesthetics 63
10. Six. Rice as Self, Rice Paddies as Our Land 81
11. Seven. Rice in the Discourse of Selves and Others 99
12. Eight. Foods as Selves and Others in Cross-cultural Perspective 114
13. Nine. Symbolic Practice through Time: Self, Ethnicity, and Nationalism 127
14. Notes 137
15. References Cited 149
16. Index 171