1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910263753003321

Autore

Boylston Tom <1980->

Titolo

The Stranger at the Feast : Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community / / Tom Boylston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, : University of California Press, 2018

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

9780520968974

0520968972

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 181 pages) : map; PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

The Anthropology of Christianity ; ; 23

Disciplina

281/.75

Soggetti

Mediation - Religious aspects - Christianity

Taboo - Ethiopia

Christianity - Ethiopia

Electronic books.

Ethiopia Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : prohibition and a ritual regime -- A history of mediation -- Fasting, bodies, and the calendar -- Proliferations of mediators -- Blood, silver, and coffee -- Spirits in the marketplace -- Concrete, bones, and feasts -- Echoes of the host -- The media landscape -- The knowledge of the world -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557242503321

Autore

Vinjamuri Ramana

Titolo

Applications of Synergies in Human Machine Interfaces

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Soggetti

Biotechnology

Civil engineering, surveying and building

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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