Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Food And Power A Culinary Ethnography Of Israel
Author(s): Avieli Nir
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520290105
Pages: 296 Pages, 19 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/1/2017
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Category: Archaeology