Islamic history and civilization: Studies and texts,
Volume Designation
VOLUME 163
ISSN of Series
0929-2403 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Part 1. Food and social status -- Part 2. Prohibitions and prescriptions from classical Islam to the present -- Part 3. Food, gender, and the body in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Part 4. Intoxication: Wine and hashish in literary sources and beyond -- Part 5. Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from antiquity to the nineteenth century -- Part 6. Managing scarcity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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"--
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Title
Insatiable appetite: food as cultural signifier in the middle east and beyond
International Standard Book Number
9789004409552
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Food as cultural signifier in the Middle East and beyond