Insatiable appetite: food as cultural signifier in the middle east and beyond /
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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Language: English
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Leiden Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
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Krieg in der Geschichte;
volume50.
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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.