Insatiable appetite: food as cultural signifier in the middle east and beyond / / Kirill Dmitriev, Julia Hauser, Bilal Orfali.

• Superior document: Krieg in der Geschichte; volume50
• Author: Brill Academic Publishers.
• TeilnehmendeR: Dmitriev, Kirill,; Hauser, Julia,; Orfali, Bilal,; Brill Academic Publishers.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Krieg in der Geschichte; volume50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 362 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity. Contributors are: Tarek Abu Hussein, Yasmin Amin, Kevin Blankinship, Tylor Brand, Kirill Dmitriev, Eric Dursteler, Anny Gaul, Julia Hauser, Christian Junge, Danilo Marino, Pedro Martins, Karen Moukheiber, Christian Saßmannshausen, Shaheed Tayob, and Lola Wilhelm.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Food and Social Status -- Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity / Tarek Abu Hussein -- Eating Up / Christian Saßmannshausen -- Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present -- Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer / Yasmin Amin -- Beyond Ḥalāl / Karen Moukheiber -- Molecular Halal / Shaheed Tayob -- Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900–1952) / Anny Gaul -- Food, Body, Society / Christian Junge -- Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond -- The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry / Kirill Dmitriev -- Hashish and Food / Danilo Marino -- The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices” / Eric Dursteler -- Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century -- An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre / Pedro Ribeiro Martins -- Missionary and Heretic / Kevin Blankinship -- A Frugal Crescent / Julia Hauser -- Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget / Tylor Brand -- Local Histories of International Food Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s / Lola Wilhelm -- Back Matter -- Index.