ABSTRACT This paper explores social identity through the rituals and exchange networks of alcohol among new Japanese immigrants (shin-issei) in a Japanese-style pub (izakaya) in Honolulu. Currently, over 18,000 shin-issei live on Oahu. Compared to the larger population of Japanese-Americans (approximately 300,000), these Japanese transnationals constitute a small, overlooked diaspora limited by cultural and economic barriers. The izakaya provides a place where identity is mediated through mutual alcohol consumption in close social groups, most notably through interaction via gift exchanges and commodity purchases. The form of alcohol rituals is distinct as it is a reconfiguration of embodied practices long cultivated in Japan, traceable to indigenous religious use and modernization near the end of the nineteenth century. In contemporary Honolulu alcohol becomes an object of relational transnational identities situated in an increasingly commodified sociocultural space.

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饮酒体现：礼物、商品和火奴鲁鲁跨国日本人身份的建构

摘要 本文通过檀香山一家日式酒吧 (izakaya) 中的新日本移民 (shin-issei) 之间的仪式和酒精交换网络来探讨社会认同。目前，超过 18,000 名 shin-issei 居住在瓦胡岛。与更多的日裔美国人（约 300,000 人）相比，这些日本跨国公司构成了一个受文化和经济障碍限制的小型、被忽视的侨民群体。居酒屋提供了一个通过亲密社会群体中的相互饮酒来调节身份的地方，最显着的是通过礼物交换和商品购买的互动。酒精仪式的形式是独特的，因为它是日本长期培养的具体实践的重新配置，可追溯到 19 世纪末的本土宗教使用和现代化。