Food for Health, Food for Wealth : : Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities / / Lynn Harbottle.

• VerfasserIn: Harbottle, Lynn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Food Nutrition ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with processes of globalization and cultural production within a specific group of consumers, British Sh'ite Iranians. Through the analysis of the consumption practices of this particular migrant group, this book illustrates how both the nutritional value and symbolic significance of food contribute to its health-giving properties and how gender and ethnic identities are preformed and reinforced through the medium of food-work in public and private spheres. At the same time, as this study demonstrates, migration modifies and transfigures such identities and produces hybrid cultures and cuisines.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF FOOD AND CONSUMPTION -- 3. FOOD, THE BODY AND TASTE -- 4. ‘NUTRITIOUS AND DELICIOUS’ IRANIAN WOMEN AND THEIR DOMESTIC FOOD-WORK -- 5. FOOD AND HEALTH. TRADITIONAL AND MODERN INFLUENCES -- 6. INCORPORATION, IDENTITY AND HEALTH -- 7. FOOD FOR WEALTH. IRANIAN ENTREPRENEURS IN THE FAST-FOOD TRADE -- 8. THE RESTAURANT TRADE AND THE INVISIBILITY OF IRANIAN CUISINE -- 9. PERFORMING GENDER MEN, WOMEN AND FOOD -- 10. WOMEN, FOOD AND POWER -- 11. CHILDHOOD, ACCULTURATION AND FOOD -- 12. PICK ’N MIX CULTURES YOUTH, FOOD AND IDENTITIES -- 13. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX BRIEF METHODOLOGICAL DETAILS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX