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ajiss-1181	Afridi, Mehnaz M.	Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law By David M. Freidenreich (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 325 pages.)	2012.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1077	38	48	Furthermore, he provides an invaluable resource not only for scholars seeking to delve deeply into more distinct contexts of food laws, but also how these laws create cate- gorical imaginings of one another as “other.” Mehnaz M. Afridi Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Director, Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center Manhattan College, Bronx, NY Book Reviews 95 ajiss294_ajiss 8/14/2012 12:42 PM The new edition of Pierre Birnbaum’s Le Peuple et Les Gros, under the title Genèse du Populisme (Hachette Pluriel: 2012) ex- plores how eating pork in Paris and other cities can be read as a sign of identity crisis in French society, as a way of excluding from the public space those who are different, in this case Jews and/or Muslims who follow dietary laws forbidding its consumption.	cache/ajiss-1181.pdf	txt/ajiss-1181.txt