“自我”隐喻:食物中的族群形象展示

Self-metaphors: Ethnic Image Performance in Food

食物在思考“自我”与“他者”之间扮演了重要的角色。藏族食物不仅仅滋养了藏族人的身体,更是族群身份的自我呈现:牦牛肉、羊肉、青稞与酥油茶作为实现“族群”或者“自我”具象化、实体化的象征符号,成为藏族的自我隐喻。在不同的情境下,藏族特色食物的深层次涵义与展示自我族群身份信息的机制存在差异:它既可以传递团结、凝聚的信息,也可以用于表达分离与区分。统一于同一种食物下对立互构的信息,成为了自我隐喻的关键所在。

Food plays an important role in thinking the relationship between self and others.Tibetan food,especially yak meat,mutton,highland barley and Tibet butter tea,are not only affording the necessary nutrition for Tibetan people’s bodies,but also the metaphors of self.The deep meaning of Tibetan special food and the mechanism of ethnic identity performance varies under different contexts:It can convey the information of solidarity and cohesion,and be used to express the separation and distinction.The unity of the opposites of one certain food has became the key things of self-metaphor.