Food and Power

A Culinary Ethnography of Israel

Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Israel, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology
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Author: Nir Avieli ISBN: 9780520964419
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: December 1, 2017
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Nir Avieli
ISBN: 9780520964419
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: December 1, 2017
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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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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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