Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond (Food in the Middle East Paperback Set)

Dmitriev, Kirill (EDT)/ Hauser, Julia (EDT)/ Orfali, Bilal (EDT)

Brill（2019/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 362 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004413023

Full Description

Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity.

Contributors are: Tarek Abu Hussein, Yasmin Amin, Kevin Blankinship, Tylor Brand, Kirill Dmitriev, Eric Dursteler, Anny Gaul, Julia Hauser, Christian Junge, Danilo Marino, Pedro Martins, Karen Moukheiber, Christian Saßmannshausen, Shaheed Tayob, and Lola Wilhelm.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1

Food and Social Status

Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity

The Case of Damascene ʿUlamaʾ in the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Period

Tarek Abu Hussein

Eating Up

Food Consumption and Social Status in Late Ottoman Greater Syria

Christian Saßmannshause

Part 2

Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present

Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer

A Journey with Two Bulbs through the Islamicate World and Its Literature

Yasmin Amin

Beyond Ḥalāl

The Dos and Don'ts of Syrian Medieval Cookery in a Twelfth-Century Market Inspector Manual

Karen Moukheiber

Molecular Halal

Producing, Debating, and Evading Halal Certification in South Africa

Shaheed Tayob

Part 3

Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900-1952)

Anny Gaul

Food, Body, Society

al-Shidyāq's Somatic Experience of Nineteenth-Century Communities

Christian Junge

Part 4

Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond

The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry

Observations on the Poetry of Abū Ṣakhr al-Hudhalī

Kirill Dmitriev

Hashish and Food

Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises

Danilo Marino

The "Abominable Pig" and the "Mother of All Vices"

Pork, Wine, and the Culinary Clash of Civilizations in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Eric Dursteler

Part 5

Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre

The Discussion of Meat Eating as a Battlefield for Competing Worldviews in Antiquity

Pedro Ribeiro Martins

The Missionary and the Heretic

Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World

Kevin Blankinship

A Frugal Crescent

Perceptions of Foodways in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Vegetarian Discourse

Julia Hauser

Part 6

Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget

Starving, Eating, and Coping in the Syrian Famine of World War I

Tylor Brand

Local Histories of International Food-Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s

The World Food Programme in the Middle East

Lola Wilhelm

Index