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Food for Health, Food for Wealth

Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities

Lynn Harbottle author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Berghahn Books, Incorporated

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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.

ISBN: 9781571817402

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 327g

196 pages