Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Ohnuki-Tierney |
| SIGNATURE | OHNUKI-TIERNEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | History, University of Wisconsin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations
In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science. The book’s chapters, drawing on research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are also in conversation with the extensive work of editor and contributor Stanley J. Tambiah: They all investigate some aspect of what Tambiah…
McDonald's in Japan: Changing Manners and Etiquette
Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
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 identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning changes, perhaps as flowers are deployed by the state and dictators? Did people recognize that the roses they offered to Stalin and Hitler became a pro…
The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms
Élan Vital: Intimate Ethnography of a Polish Jew My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century . By Alisse Waterston. New York: Routledge, 2014
Japan: Sociocultural Aspects
East Asian Studies: Culture
Comment les fleurs peuvent-elles tuer
Tel était le titre de l’une des deux conférences qu’a données au Collège de France Mme Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, professeure à l’université de Madison et anthropologue de la culture japonaise. Se servant d’exemples tirés du Japon moderne, d’Allemagne et d’Union Soviétique, elle y explorait la manière dont les régimes nationalistes font usage des symboles issus de la culture populaire pour assurer leur domination. À cette fin, elle contrastait le symb…
Anthropology of Food
Food is an important indicator of social differentiation, which defines the boundaries between social groups, and social hierarchy, which entails class, status, and power inequality. Because food is a basic element of material culture and social life, it has occupied a central place in the discipline of anthropology from its earliest days. Anthropologists view food and foodways as tools with which to understand individual cultures and societies, …
Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
Always Discontinuous/Continuous, and “Hybrid” by Its Very Nature: The Culture Concept Historicized
Commentary| January 01 2005 Always Discontinuous/Continuous, and “Hybrid” by Its Very Nature: The Culture Concept Historicized Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 179–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-1-179 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
The Ainu Colonization and the Development of “Agrarian Japan” — A Symbolic Interpretation
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
The Anthropology of the Other in the Age of SupermodernityNon-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity.Marc Auge , John Howe
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
Structure, Event and Historical Metaphor: Rice and Identities in Japanese History
In historical anthropology, 'structure' is often assigned analytical and historical priority over event/practice which is seen to disrupt a solid structure. This article presents an alternative vision - structure is in constant motion even from the beginning, and events and practice by actors with their circumscribed power sometimes articulate an inchoate structure and other times help to facilitate changes already in motion in the structure itse…
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Cultural Bases of Medical Technology [and Comments and Reply]
The Power of Absence. Zero Signifiers and their Transgressions
Ohnuki-Tierney Emiko. The Power of Absence. Zero Signifiers and their Transgressions. In: L'Homme, 1994, tome 34 n°130. pp. 59-76
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time
In Rice as Self, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney examines how the Japanese have conceived of themselves from ancient times to the present by focusing on their most important food-rice. She argues that rice, as a dominant symbol, has played a crucial role in shaping Japanese identity and in defining the relationship between the individual, society, and the cosmos. Ohnuki-Tierney traces the evolution of rice symbolism through various historical periods, from …
Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology
Vitality on the Rebound: Ritual's Core
Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Cultural Bases of Medical Technology [and Comments and Reply]
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time
In Rice as Self, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney examines how the Japanese have conceived of themselves from ancient times to the present by focusing on their most important food-rice. She argues that rice, as a dominant symbol, has played a crucial role in shaping Japanese identity and in defining the relationship between the individual, society, and the cosmos. Ohnuki-Tierney traces the evolution of rice symbolism through various historical periods, from …
The Power of Absence. Zero Signifiers and their Transgressions
Ohnuki-Tierney Emiko. The Power of Absence. Zero Signifiers and their Transgressions. In: L'Homme, 1994, tome 34 n°130. pp. 59-76
The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese
Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family
Sakhalin Ainu Time Reckoning
Structure, Event and Historical Metaphor: Rice and Identities in Japanese History
In historical anthropology, 'structure' is often assigned analytical and historical priority over event/practice which is seen to disrupt a solid structure. This article presents an alternative vision - structure is in constant motion even from the beginning, and events and practice by actors with their circumscribed power sometimes articulate an inchoate structure and other times help to facilitate changes already in motion in the structure itse…
The Emperor of Japan as Deity (Kami)
L'A. presente une interpretation du systeme imperial japonais depuis sa creation. Il insiste sur les significations culturelles du statut d'empereur et leurs evolutions. L'empereur fut d'abord considere comme un chaman et un officiant des rituels concernant le riz (« ōnamesai »). Sa capacite a assurer une bonne recolte legitimait son pouvoir. Mais les gouvernements militaires successifs lui oterent ses pouvoirs politiques et economiques. Deux anc…
Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu
The Shamanism of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin
An Octopus Headache? A Lamprey Boil? Multisensory Perception of "Habitual Illness" and World View of the Ainu
"Habitual (natural) illnesses," with an implicit assumption of their insignificance, both for the people and the anthropologists, have received little attention in anthropological literature. An analysis of headaches and boils of a group of Sakhalin Ainu now resettled in Japan suggests that the classification of these minor illnesses is intimately related to their world view and that the Ainu view of these illnesses reflects their multisensory pe…
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
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 identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning changes, perhaps as flowers are deployed by the state and dictators? Did people recognize that the roses they offered to Stalin and Hitler became a pro…
Vitality on the Rebound: Ritual's Core
Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation
Preface Ainu phonemes 1. Introduction: aims and scope of the book 2. The Ainu 3. The ethnomedical approach in anthropology and the Ainu domain of illness 4. Habitual illnesses 5. Classification of body-part and skin illnesses 6. Metaphysical illnesses and their healing rituals 7. A symbolic interpretation of metaphysical illnesses and healing rituals 8. Theories in symbolic studies and the Ainu data 9. Modes of perception and the classification o…
The Shamanism of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin
Sakhalin Ainu Time Reckoning
The Ainu Ecosystem: Environment and Group Structure
On the Present-Day Ainu
An Octopus Headache? A Lamprey Boil? Multisensory Perception of "Habitual Illness" and World View of the Ainu
"Habitual (natural) illnesses," with an implicit assumption of their insignificance, both for the people and the anthropologists, have received little attention in anthropological literature. An analysis of headaches and boils of a group of Sakhalin Ainu now resettled in Japan suggests that the classification of these minor illnesses is intimately related to their world view and that the Ainu view of these illnesses reflects their multisensory pe…
Shamans and Imu: Among Two Ainu Groups
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation
Preface Ainu phonemes 1. Introduction: aims and scope of the book 2. The Ainu 3. The ethnomedical approach in anthropology and the Ainu domain of illness 4. Habitual illnesses 5. Classification of body-part and skin illnesses 6. Metaphysical illnesses and their healing rituals 7. A symbolic interpretation of metaphysical illnesses and healing rituals 8. Theories in symbolic studies and the Ainu data 9. Modes of perception and the classification o…
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View
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 book Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney provides a detailed and historically informed account of the cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan. In contrast to most ethnomedical studies, this book pays careful attention to everyday hygienic practices and be…
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan. An Anthropological View
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
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. During early periods of Japanese history the monkey's nearness to the human-animal boundary made it a revered mediator or an animal deity closest to humans. Later it became a scapegoat mocked for its vain efforts to behave in a human fashion. Modern Japanese have begun to …
The Monkey as Mirror. Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship among Japanese Americans
1. The analysis of kinship change Part I. Marriage: 2. Issei marriage 3. Nisei marriage 4. The transformation of marriage Part II. Filial Relations: 5. Two generations of filial relations 6. The interpretation of filial relations Part III. Siblinghood and Kinship: 7. Issei siblings, Kazoku and Shinrui 8. Nisei siblings, family, and relatives 9. Conclusion: transforming the past Appendix Index
Monkey as Metaphor? Transformations of a Polytropic Symbol in Japanese Culture
Most symbols are polytropic as well as polysemnc in that their multiple meamngs in various contexts function as different types of trope. This article pursues the complex nature of polytropes through a formulation of synecdoche as an interstitial trope between metaphor and metonymy, and demonstrates how the two conceptual principles of analogy and contiguity, that define metaphor and metonymy respectively, are interdependent and interpenetrated, …
The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese
Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approaches
The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
The Emperor of Japan as Deity (Kami)
L'A. presente une interpretation du systeme imperial japonais depuis sa creation. Il insiste sur les significations culturelles du statut d'empereur et leurs evolutions. L'empereur fut d'abord considere comme un chaman et un officiant des rituels concernant le riz (« ōnamesai »). Sa capacite a assurer une bonne recolte legitimait son pouvoir. Mais les gouvernements militaires successifs lui oterent ses pouvoirs politiques et economiques. Deux anc…
Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family
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