Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel

Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
ISBN-10
0520290097
ISBN-13
9780520290099
Category
Social Science
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2018
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Nir Avieli

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.

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