Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel Volume 67 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520290105)

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.

Author: Nir Avieli
ISBN-10: 0520290100
ISBN-13: 9780520290105
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2017
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018