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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : prohibition and a ritual regime -- A history of mediation -- Fasting, bodies, and the calendar -- Proliferations of mediators -- Blood, silver, and coffee -- The Buda Crisis -- Concrete, bones, and feasts -- Echoes of the host -- The media landscape -- The knowledge of the world -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"The Stranger at the Feast is the first full-length ethnographic study of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. Based on two years of field study on the Zege peninsula on Lake Tana between 2008 and 2014, the book follows the material relationships by which Ethiopian Orthodox Christians relate to God, each other, and the material environment. It shows how religious life in Zege is based around a ritual ecology of prohibition and mediation in which fasting and avoidance practices are necessary in order to make the material world fit for religious life. The book traces how religious feeding and fasting practices have been the idiom through which Christians in Zege have understood the turbulent political changes of recent decades"--Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
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Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Ethiopia -- Case studies.
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Mediation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Case studies.
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Taboo -- Ethiopia -- Case studies.
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Ethiopia -- Church history.
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Christianisme -- Éthiopie -- Études de cas.
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Médiation -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme -- Études de cas.
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Tabou -- Éthiopie -- Études de cas.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Christianity
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Mediation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Taboo
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Ethiopia
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class distinctions. |
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eating. |
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fasting. |
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feeding practices. |
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haile selassie. |
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hospitality. |
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imperial era. |
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large scale religious change. |
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local transformations. |
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modern secular state. |
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northern ethiopia. |
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orthodox christians. |
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orthodox society. |
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radical upheaval. |
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religious traditions. |
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ritual prohibition. |
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secularization of the state. |
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zege peninsula. |
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Case studies
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Church history
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boylston, Tom, 1980- author. Stranger at the feast Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520296497 (DLC) 2017038245 |
| ISBN |
0520968972 |
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9780520968974 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520296497 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000066313742 |
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