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

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The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of one of the world’s oldest and least-understood religious traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege peninsula in northern Ethiopia, the author tells the story of how people have understood large-scale religious ch...