Food and Power : A Culinary Ethnography of Israel (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Avieli, Nir

University of California Press（2017/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520290105
• DDC分類 641.595694

Full 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.

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
References
Index