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...