Food and Power A Culinary Ethnography of Israel - California Studies in Food and Culture

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.

ISBN:	9780520290105
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	01 Dec 2017
DEWEY:	641.595694
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvi, 274
Weight:	416g
Height:	153mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	20mm

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