Ethnography of Rice:

Worldwide General View of Rice Diet Forms and Cooking Methods

Abstract

  In this paper, the idea of the traditional rice diet forms, the cooking methods, the eating habits and the rice diet people in various parts of Eurasia are summarized, and the construction of their whole image is also tried. However, we aim here not to construct such image itself, but to make understand the diet form of an individual people. To be concrete, our purpose is to enable the effective and balanced comparison with another example when, after the whole image is constructed, we would return to each case so as to observe, analyze and comprehend more clearly, with due consideration for the whole image, the traditional characters, features, characteristics of rice diet form among the people concerned.

  Though it is only a rough view, the following themes are investigated from this viewpoint and various sides of the globalization of rice diet are considered properly : details of change from farm village self-support economy to international exchange economy, distribution of the traditional rice diet people in Asia, diet of wild rice plant, Indica diet and Japonica diet, white rice diet and red rice diet, cleaned rice diet and rice grain diet, treatment of rice, principle and method of rice / boiled rice in daily diet (cooking technique of rice) and feature of idea of the rice diet people in East Asia and South Asia.