Food and Power

A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29009-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: California Studies in Food and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Avieli, Nir

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Hummus Wars
1 • Size Matters
2 • Roasting Meat
3 • Why We Like Italian Food
4 • Th e McDonaldization of the Kibbutz Dining Room
5 • Meat and Masculinity in a Military Prison
6 • Th ai Migrant Workers and the Dog-Eating Myth
Conclusion: Food and Power in Israel—Orientalization and Ambivalence

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nir Avieli is a Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, Israel.