Food and Power

A Culinary Ethnography of Israel

AvNir Avieli

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del 67 i serien California Studies in Food and Culture

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Beskrivning

Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, Food and Power considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. Nir Avieli explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine, the ownership of hummus, the privatization of communal Kibbutz dining rooms, and food at a military prison for Palestinian detainees to show how cooking and eating create ambivalence concerning questions of strength and weakness and how power and victimization are mixed into a sense of self-justification that maintains internal cohesion among Israeli Jews.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:California Studies in Food and Culture
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520290099

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Nir Avieli is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, Israel.

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"Avieli’s book reveals not only power dynamics associated with what we eat, but also how we, as a community member or as an outsider researcher within it, use food to establish our 'place' in society."

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Hummus Wars1 • Size Matters2 • Roasting Meat3 • Why We Like Italian Food4 • Th e McDonaldization of the Kibbutz Dining Room5 • Meat and Masculinity in a Military Prison6 • Th ai Migrant Workers and the Dog-Eating MythConclusion: Food and Power in Israel—Orientalization and AmbivalenceNotesReferencesIndex