Food for Health, Food for Wealth

Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57181-634-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: Anthropology of Food & Nutrition

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harbottle, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Food and Consumption

Chapter 3. Food, the Body and Taste

Chapter 4. Nutritious and Delicious: Iranian Women and their Domestic Food-work

Chapter 5. Food and Health: Traditional and Modern Influences

Chapter 6. Incorporation, Identity and Health

Chapter 7. Food for Wealth: Iranian Entrepreneurs in the Fast-Food Trade

Chapter 8. The Restaurant Trade and the Invisibility of Iranian Cuisine

Chapter 9. Performing Gender: Men, women and Food

Chapter 10. Women, Food and Power

Chapter 11. Childhood, Acculturation and Food

Chapter 12. Pick N’ Mix Cultures: Youth, Food and Identities

Chapter 13. Conclusion

Appendix: Brief Methodological Details

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harbottle, Lynn
Lynn Harbottle is a medical anthropologist and nutritionist, with a particular interest in the food habits and health of ethnic minorities in Britain. She was awarded the Frankenberg prize for her Masters dissertation on which this book is based.