Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel Volume 67

Name: Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel Volume 67
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ISBN: 9780520290105

✍️ Avieli, Nir

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📚 EDITORIAL REVIEW

“This scholarly ethnography suits curious food historians, sociologists, and adventurous readers interested in cultural studies. If you are looking for a standard weeknight cookbook packed with quick family dinners and vibrant step-by-step recipes, you will be deeply disappointed.

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Avieli, Nir

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🏛 University of California Press 📅 2017 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780520290105

📝 Description: Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel Volume 67

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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Avieli provides a rigorous academic analysis of how food reinforces national cohesion and power dynamics among Israeli Jews. The text is dense with sociological theory rather than practical culinary instruction. It will not suit readers looking for recipes, cooking techniques, or narrative memoirs. This work is strictly for those interested in the intersection of anthropology, history, and gastronomy within a specific geopolitical context.

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⭐ eatbookfamily.com editorial review Editorial rating 4.6/5

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This scholarly ethnography suits curious food historians, sociologists, and adventurous readers interested in cultural studies. If you are looking for a standard weeknight cookbook packed with quick family dinners and vibrant step-by-step recipes, you will be deeply disappointed.

Reader rating

4.6

Based on 1 reviews

Eatbook Family editorial team

Avieli provides a rigorous academic analysis of how food reinforces national cohesion and power dynamics among Israeli Jews. The text is dense with sociological theory rather than practical culinary instruction. It will not suit readers looking for recipes, cooking techniques, or narrative memoirs. This work is strictly for those interested in the intersection of anthropology, history, and gastronomy within a specific geopolitical context.

❓ Frequently asked questions

No, this is an academic ethnography focusing on the cultural and political dimensions of food rather than a traditional recipe book with cooking photographs.

Instead of ingredient lists or measurement conversions, it offers deep analytical essays exploring the social history and politics surrounding dishes like hummus and communal dining.

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📜 Historical context

Rooted in decades of field research conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, this work explores the complex sociology of the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. It examines how daily eating habits, communal kibbutz traditions, and fierce debates over national dishes reflect broader dynamics of power, politics, and identity.