| Description |
1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Culture, research and methodology -- Introduction: the non-importance of food -- Situating Dhofar and Gibalis -- Researching foodways in Dhofar -- Turning to ethnography, turning to food -- Methodology -- Representation, reciprocation and research with Gibalis -- Limitations -- Differences and hierarchies -- Research overview -- Bibliography -- Comparison: Yemen -- fighting with food, domestic help and qat -- Comparison: Qatar -- food and hospitality -- Notes |
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Prepared foods -- Moving food -- Buying 49 -- Neighborhood stores -- Large stores -- Economics of receiving and buying food -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Cooking -- Overview of past foodways -- Cooking at home -- Houses -- Kitchens -- Who cooks at home -- Who cooks and who sells outside the home -- Deciding what to make and how -- Pragmatics of when and what to eat -- Breakfast -- Lunch -- Snacks and bread -- Dinner -- Drinks -- Desserts -- The five senses and food -- Non-innovation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Special meals and special foods -- Special meals -- Guests -- Ramadan |
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Typical suhoor and iftar -- Eid -- Celebrations: weddings -- Celebrations: birthdays, graduation, recovery, return home -- Mourning -- Special foods -- Traditional foods -- Meat -- Honey -- "Local" food -- Performative foods -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Eating and location -- How to eat -- Policing who eats what, when and how -- Restaurants -- Cultural aspects of eating in restaurants -- Who serves -- Fast food -- Cafés -- Picnics -- Family -- Single-gender -- Eating -- location, purpose and sociability -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Lifestages, power and gender |
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Foodways and lifestages -- Pregnancy, newborn, infant -- Child -- Aging -- Sickness -- Foodways and power7 -- Foodways and gender -- The "pleasant experience" of the ethnographer while eating -- Cooking -- Eating choices -- Images -- Humor -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Purity, privacy and danger -- Introduction -- Foodways and purity -- Purity in the house: kitchen, salle, majlis, bathrooms, bedrooms -- Purity and water -- Purity -- body -- Purity -- odors -- Purity outside the house: cars, restaurants, picnics -- Foodways and privacy |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000326536 |
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1000326535 |
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