Food and power : a culinary ethnography of Israel
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Food and power : a culinary ethnography of Israel
(California studies in food and culture, 67)
University of California Press, c2018
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Food & power
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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Index
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