The Hyena People - Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia (Paperback)

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. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with Ethiopian immigrants now living in Israel, Salamon explores the Ethiopia within as seen through the lens of individual memories and expressed through ongoing dialogues. What results is an ethnography of the fantasies and fears that divide groups and, in particular, Jews from 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 interreligious, interethnic, and especially Jewish -- Christian relations in a variety of cultural and historical contexts.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 13
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	December 1999
Authors:	Hagar Salamon
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-21901-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	0-520-21901-5
Barcode:	9780520219014

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