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DOI	10.1080/15528014.2021.1958288
	Here I can like watermelon: culinary redemption among the African Hebrew Israelites
	Avieli, Nir; Markowitz, Fran
通讯作者	Avieli, N (corresponding author), Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, Beer Sheva, Israel.
来源期刊	FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY
ISSN	1552-8014
EISSN	1751-7443
出版年	2021-08
英文摘要	Every May, the African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC), a transnational millenarian group with its headquarters in the Israeli desert town of Dimona, celebrates its most important festival, New World Passover. Commemorating their exodus from the land of the great captivity (the US) to Israel, the colorful, joyful event has a striking culinary feature: a huge pile of several tons of watermelon is set in the park amidst the celebrants, who feast on the juicy fruit along with their many guests. In this article, based on long-term ethnographic study conducted in Dimona's Kfar HaShalom (Village of Peace), the AHIC spiritual and administrative center, we explore the various meanings attributed by group members to the watermelon as a healthy, tasty marker of the season; as a natural aphrodisiac; and as an expression of the community's freedom in Israel. We coin the term culinary redemption to engage theoretically with these transformations in substance and meaning that are attributed to the watermelon. We argue that the community's positive manipulations of watermelons, which are otherwise associated with African-American culture in adverse modes, are material and spiritual expressions of the AHIC's transformation that allows its members to demonstrate their belonging to the land and people of Israel while dealing with and overcoming American and Israeli prejudice and racism.
英文关键词	African Hebrew Israelite community Black Hebrews food prejudice watermelon culinary redemption
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000684171400001
WOS类目	Sociology
WOS研究方向	Sociology
来源机构	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/363248
作者单位	[Avieli, Nir; Markowitz, Fran] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, Beer Sheva, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Avieli, Nir,Markowitz, Fran. Here I can like watermelon: culinary redemption among the African Hebrew Israelites[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,2021.
APA	Avieli, Nir,&Markowitz, Fran.(2021).Here I can like watermelon: culinary redemption among the African Hebrew Israelites.FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY.
MLA	Avieli, Nir,et al."Here I can like watermelon: culinary redemption among the African Hebrew Israelites".FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY (2021).