Food for Health, Food for Wealth: The Performance of Ethnic and Gender Identities by Iranian Settlers in BritainFood 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. 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. |
Contents
List of Figures | 1 |
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Food and Consumption | 17 |
Food the Body and Taste | 29 |
Iranian Women and their Domestic Foodwork | 41 |
Traditional and Modern Influences | 51 |
Incorporation Identity and Health | 61 |
Iranian Entrepreneurs in the FastFood Trade | 71 |
The Restaurant Trade and the Invisibility of Iranian Cuisine | 85 |
Men women and Food | 97 |
Women Food and Power | 107 |
Childhood Acculturation and Food | 123 |
Youth Food and Identities | 133 |
Conclusion | 149 |
Bibliography | 171 |
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