| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 574 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
California studies in food and culture ; 67
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California studies in food and culture ; 67.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the hummus wars -- Size matters -- Roasting meat -- Why we like Italian food -- The McDonaldization of the Kibbutz dining room -- Meat and masculinity in a military prison -- Thai migrant workers and the dog meat eating myth -- Conclusion : food and power, orientalization and ambivalence. |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cooking, Israeli -- History.
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Cooking, Israeli. |
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History. |
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Cooking -- Social aspects -- Israel.
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Cooking -- Social aspects. |
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Israel. |
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Cooking. |
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Israel -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Kosher food.
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Kosher food. |
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National characteristics, Israeli.
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National characteristics, Israeli. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Avieli, Nir, 1966- Food and power. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520290099 (DLC) 2017023348 |
| ISBN |
9780520964419 (electronic book) |
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0520964411 (electronic book) |
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9780520290099 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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