{"product_id":"insatiable-appetite-food-as-cultural-signifier-in-the-middle-east-and-beyond-9789004407626","title":"Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope,  from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity.    Contributors are: Tarek Abu Hussein, Yasmin Amin, Kevin Blankinship, Tylor Brand, Kirill Dmitriev, Eric Dursteler, Anny Gaul, Julia Hauser, Christian Junge, Danilo Marino, Pedro Martins, Karen Moukheiber, Christian Saßmannshausen, Shaheed Tayob, and Lola Wilhelm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This text ultimately excels in approaching an often misunderstood region from a novel perspective, providing fresh insights into old questions, and is recommended for scholars and graduate students working on the history or anthropology of food, or interested in alternative histories of the Mediterranean, Ottoman, Arab, and Islamic worlds.”     J. Alkorani, University of Toronto in: CHOICE connect, Volume 57, No.9 (2020).    “Sollte das Genre der kulturwissenschaftlichen kulinarischen Erforschung in nächster Zeit noch weiter blühen – ich sehe keine gegenteiligen Tendenzen – werden sich zukünftig dafür Interessierte aus dem Band Insatiable Appetite viele fruchtbare Anregungen holen können.“    Bert G. Fragner, The Institute of Iranian studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Volume 111 (2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors    Introduction    Part 1  Food and Social Status    Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity  The Case of Damascene ʿUlamaʾ in the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Period  Tarek Abu Hussein    Eating Up  Food Consumption and Social Status in Late Ottoman Greater Syria  Christian Saßmannshause    Part 2  Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present    Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer  A Journey with Two Bulbs through the Islamicate World and Its Literature  Yasmin Amin    Beyond Ḥalāl  The Dos and Don’ts of Syrian Medieval Cookery in a Twelfth-Century Market Inspector Manual  Karen Moukheiber    Molecular Halal  Producing, Debating, and Evading Halal Certification in South Africa  Shaheed Tayob    Part 3  Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries    Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900–1952)  Anny Gaul    Food, Body, Society  al-Shidyāq’s Somatic Experience of Nineteenth-Century Communities  Christian Junge    Part 4  Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond    The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry  Observations on the Poetry of Abū Ṣakhr al-Hudhalī  Kirill Dmitriev    Hashish and Food  Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises  Danilo Marino  The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices”  Pork, Wine, and the Culinary Clash of Civilizations in the Early Modern Mediterranean  Eric Dursteler    Part 5  Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century    An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre  The Discussion of Meat Eating as a Battlefield for Competing Worldviews in Antiquity  Pedro Ribeiro Martins    The Missionary and the Heretic  Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World  Kevin Blankinship    A Frugal Crescent  Perceptions of Foodways in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Vegetarian Discourse  Julia Hauser    Part 6  Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries    Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget  Starving, Eating, and Coping in the Syrian Famine of World War I  Tylor Brand    Local Histories of International Food-Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s  The World Food Programme in the Middle East  Lola Wilhelm    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210780139863,"sku":"9789004407626","price":115.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/insatiable-appetite-food-as-cultural-signifier-in-the-middle-east-and-beyond-9789004407626","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}