Cover of Nir Avieli: Food and Power

Nir Avieli Food and Power

A Culinary Ethnography of Israel

Price for Eshop: 1106 Kč (€ 44.2)

VAT 0% included

New

E-book delivered electronically online

E-Book information

University of California Press

2017

EPub, PDF
How do I buy e-book?

296

978-0-520-96441-9

0-520-96441-1

Annotation

Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s,Food and Powerconsiders 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.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.