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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this remarkable book, Hagar Salamon reveals unsuspected relationships and new domains of meaning communicated between species. Meat Matters is a major contribution at the vanguard of a challenging new scholarly field and should be required reading for ethnographers from across the disciplines."—Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and African and African American Studies at Harvard University
"A rich, sensitive and nuanced ethnography of the interlaced practices, ideas, meanings, beliefs, and symbols of meat for the Beta Israel community. Beautifully conceptualized, written and illustrated, Hagar Salamon's evocative book offers illuminating insights into the singular Ethiopian Jewish experience and Ethiopian culture more broadly."—Jonathan Miran, author of Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Enduring Exposures: Everyday Bonding with Creatures
2. Zooming In: Creaturely Sentiments
3. Zooming Out: Emerging from the Pen
4. Shifting Focus/Lenses: Interreligious Negotiations
5. Transposing and Splitting: Under New Hegemonies
6. Candid Camera: Focusing the Lens on Lost Meats
7. Upraising the Vision: God Watches over Flesh
8. Concluding Words and Continuing Questions
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