Food and Power
：A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
( California Studies in Food and Culture )
Publication subTitle ：A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
Publication series ：California Studies in Food and Culture
Author： Avieli Nir
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9780520964419
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520290099
Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology
Keyword： 文化人类学、社会人类学
Language： ENG
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Description
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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