The hyena people: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salamon, Hagar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press 1999
Series:Contraversions 13
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-149) and index
Insults and ciphers: the vocabulary of denigration -- Christian land, sabbath milk, and the magic of fire -- The Jew as buda: hyena in human form -- Gift giving and the multiple meanings of knives and sheep -- Christian help with Jewish dead: mitigating the crisis of impurity -- Religious holidays: inclusion and exclusion -- The twice-disguised hyena -- Flesh and bones: Jewish masters, Jewish slaves -- Crucifiers and idol makers: Judaism and Christianity in the village square -- Our blood, their blood: menstruation, slaughter, and eating -- The battle of metaphors: fire and water versus clay vessels -- Transformations
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 157 pages)
ISBN:0520923014
0585331200
9780520923010
9780585331201

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