Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Japanese: 大貫恵美子 born 1934) is a noted anthropologist and the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology[1] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Ohnuki-Tierney was appointed the Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture at the Library of Congress in DC in 2009 and then in 2010 Fellow of Institut d’Études Avancées-Paris.

All her subsequent works have considered long periods of Japanese history in order to understand "culture through time."

Her focus has been on various symbols of identities of the Japanese, such as rice and the monkey, within broader socio-political contexts and in comparative perspective.

[10] She has continued to work on the question of "aesthetic" (broadly defined), ubiquitous in wars of all types, from "tribal warfare" to conflicts between nation-states.