03682oam 22008054a 450 99632803880331620230621141336.00-520-96897-210.1525/luminos.44(CKB)4100000002678549(OAPEN)645100(DE-B1597)539695(OCoLC)1002693143(DE-B1597)9780520968974(OCoLC)1088340862(MdBmJHUP)muse72959(ScCtBLL)7c48e27f-74d8-4a07-9c9b-d6e7f7be8757(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27683(EXLCZ)99410000000267854920170810h20182018 uy 0engurmu#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Stranger at the FeastProhibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community /Tom BoylstonOaklandUniversity of California Press2018Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]©20181 online resource (ix, 181 pages) map; PDF, digital file(s)The Anthropology of Christianity ;23Print version: 9780520296497 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Anthropology of Christianity.MediationReligious aspectsChristianityCase studiesTabooEthiopiaCase studiesChristianityEthiopiaCase studiesEthiopiaChurch historyElectronic books. 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.MediationReligious aspectsChristianityTabooChristianity281/.75Boylston Tom1980-1023317MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996328038803316The Stranger at the Feast2430973UNISA