{"product_id":"food-and-power-a-culinary-ethnography-of-isrl-california-studies-in-food-and-culture-a-culinary-ethnography-of-israel-67-9780520290105","title":"Food and Power A Culinary Ethnography of Isrl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Avieli’s book reveals not only power dynamics associated with what we eat, but also how we, as a community member or as an outsider researcher within it, use food to establish our 'place' in society.\" * Digest: A Journal of Foodways \u0026amp; Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Hummus Wars\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Size Matters\u003cbr\u003e 2 • Roasting Meat\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Why We Like Italian Food\u003cbr\u003e 4 • Th e McDonaldization of the Kibbutz Dining Room\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Meat and Masculinity in a Military Prison\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Th ai Migrant Workers and the Dog-Eating Myth\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Food and Power in Israel—Orientalization and Ambivalence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402885833047,"sku":"9780520290105","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520290105.jpg?v=1730481771","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/food-and-power-a-culinary-ethnography-of-isrl-california-studies-in-food-and-culture-a-culinary-ethnography-of-israel-67-9780520290105","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}