The stranger at the feast : prohibition and mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian community /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boylston, Tom, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Temas:
Christianity > Ethiopia > Case studies.
Mediation > Religious aspects > Christianity > Case studies.
Taboo > Ethiopia > Case studies.
Christianisme > Éthiopie > Études de cas.
Médiation > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Études de cas.
Tabou > Éthiopie > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Christianity
Mediation > Religious aspects > Christianity
Taboo
Ethiopia > Church history.
Ethiopia
class distinctions.
eating.
fasting.
feeding practices.
haile selassie.
hospitality.
imperial era.
large scale religious change.
local transformations.
modern secular state.
northern ethiopia.
orthodox christians.
orthodox society.
radical upheaval.
religious traditions.
ritual prohibition.
secularization of the state.
zege peninsula.
Case studies
Church history
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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