ISBN:
9781138954182
Language:
English
Pages:
207 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in anthropology 28
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in anthropology
DDC:
381.41091767
Keywords:
Halal food industry
;
Halal food / Social aspects
;
Technology / Religious aspects / Islam
;
Consumption (Economics) / Religious aspects / Islam
;
Gesellschaft
;
Religion
;
Verbrauch
;
Technologie
;
Lebensmittelproduktion
;
Islam
;
Halal
;
Südostasien
;
Europa
;
Europa
;
Südostasien
;
Islam
;
Halal
;
Verbrauch
;
Lebensmittelproduktion
;
Technologie
Abstract:
Halal (literally, "permissible" or "lawful") production, trade, and standards have become essential to state-regulated Islam and to companies in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, giving these two countries a special position in the rapidly expanding global market for halal products: in these nations state bodies certify halal products as well as spaces (shops, factories, and restaurants) and work processes, and so consumers can find state halal-certified products from Malaysia and Singapore in shops around the world. Building on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe, this book provides an exploration of the role of halal production, trade, and standards. Fischer explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam, markets, regulatory institutions, and technoscience interact and diverge. Focusing on the "bigger institutional picture" that frames everyday halal consumption, Fischer provides a multisited ethnography of the overlapping technologies and techniques of production, trade, and standards that together warrant a product as "halal," and thereby help to format the market
Description / Table of Contents:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description / Table of Contents:
Halal between Islam, standards, and technoscience -- In the Halal zones of Malaysia and Singapore -- Global Halal networks -- Halal training -- In the Halal lab -- Halal activism -- Manufacturing companies -- Shops and restaurants
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