Insatiable appetite: food as cultural signifier in the middle east and beyond /

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

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...

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Superior document:Krieg in der Geschichte; volume50
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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.
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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.

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