Afghanistan Remembers : Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices
Afghanistan Remembers : Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices
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Author(s): Dossa, Parin
ISBN No.: 9781442647244
Pages: 277
Year: 201407
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 88.09
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"Afghanistan Remembersmakes an important contribution to the literature on memory and memorialization, the gender relations of war, immigration and diaspora studies, and the political economy and anthropology of food. The detailed, richly layered telling of the women's stories is exceptional, as is Dossa's analysis of them."--Wenona Giles, Department of Anthropology, York University "Afghanistan Remembersis engaged anthropology at its best: innovative, responsive, nuanced. This compelling ethnography explores the ways gendered violences of war and dislocation resonate across families in Afghanistan to resettlements in Canada - impacting the inner spaces of people's everyday lives as not-quite-articulated knowledge. But these memories also convey political truths and illuminate injustices - revealing the unknown workings of violence. Through these women's narratives and culinary lives, Dossa shows how stories and 'food as performance' can reveal, and begin to heal, the impact of violence on the inner recesses of life."--Carolyn R. Nordstrom, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame.



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