A01=Hagar Salamon
Author_Hagar Salamon
blood
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christian society
christianity
clay vessels
comparative religions
contraversions critical studies in jewish literature culture and society
conversion
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ethiopia
ethiopian culture
ethiopian history
ethiopian immigrants
ethnography
falasha
inter ethnic relations
inter religious relations
jewish christian relations
jewish community
jewish people
jews
judaism
northwestern ethiopia
purity and impurity
religion
religious coexistence
religious disputations
slavery
supernatural powers
water and fire
Product details
- ISBN 9780520219014
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Jews (Falasha) of northwestern Ethiopia are a unique example of a Jewish group living within an ancient, non-Western, predominantly Christian society. Hagar Salamon presents the first in-depth study of this group, called the 'Hyena people' by their non-Jewish neighbors. Based on more than 100 interviews with Ethiopian immigrants now living in Israel, Salamon's book explores the Ethiopia within as seen through the lens of individual memories and expressed through ongoing dialogues. It is an ethnography of the fantasies and fears that divide groups and, in particular, Jews and non-Jews. Recurring patterns can be seen in Salamon's interviews, which thematically touch on religious disputations, purity and impurity, the concept of blood, slavery and conversion, supernatural powers, and the metaphors of clay vessels, water, and fire. "The Hyena People" helps unravel the complex nature of religious coexistence in Ethiopia and also provides important new tools for analyzing and evaluating inter-religious, interethnic, and especially Jewish-Christian relations in a variety of cultural and historical contexts.
Hagar Salamon is a Lecturer in the Department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
