216 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Foodways in Southern Oman examines the objects, practices and beliefs relating to producing, obtaining, cooking, eating and disposing of food in the Dhofar region of southern Oman. The chapters consider food preparation, who makes what kind of food, and how and when meals are eaten. Marielle Risse connects what is consumed to themes such as land usage, gender, age, purity, privacy and... Read more
1. Culture, Research and Methodology; 2. Procuring Foodstuffs: Raising, Herding, Catching, Receiving and Buying; 3. Cooking; 4. Special Meals and Special Foods; 5. Eating and Location; 6. Lifestages, Power and Gender; 7. Purity, Privacy and Danger; 8. Generosity; 9. Changes in Foodways
Biography
Marielle Risse is an Associate Professor at Dhofar University in Salalah, Oman. She has taught literature, education and cultural studies on the Arabian Peninsula for a number of years and is author of Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
