ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nihon Shoki, Nihonjinron, Pikachu
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Ant214 guest lecture - food and culture in japan. Food goes into making a person who they are. Favorite food signal about personality and character - who the person is. This trend of giving cartoons favorite foods is very ancient. Reality tv and other tv shows portray food. There is more effort put into food on visual appearance and making it look cute or pretty disregarding the taste and flavour. Religions of japan - play role in food. Shinto - the way of the japanese. Polytheistic and animistic - kami no michi. Interesting and difficult to study because no founder or start date. No church or formal doctrine until buddhism arrive. Kojiki and nihon shoki - come in and have closest info to religious text but not really. Not immortal - 2 major kinds of kami. Nature kami - personification of natural world such as forces, animals, plants, and rivers/plants and aspects of landscape.
