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

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

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 consum...

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

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