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

• Autore: Boylston Tom <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Oakland, : University of California Press, 2018; Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages) : map; PDF, digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 281/.75
• Soggetto topico: Mediation - Religious aspects - Christianity; Taboo - Ethiopia; Christianity - Ethiopia
• Soggetto geografico: Ethiopia Church history
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Stranger at the Feast
• ISBN: 0-520-96897-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996328038803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Anthropology of Christianity.