Fasting, Bodies, and the Calendar
Tom Boylston
Chapter from the book: Boylston, T. 2018. The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community.
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Chapter from the book: Boylston, T. 2018. The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community.
The Ethiopian Orthodox calendar regulates every aspect of religious life in Zege. This chapter shows how calendrical rhythms of fasting and feasting serve to tie individual bodies into an overarching, highly structured ritual scheme. The calendar is so pervasive that, when people wish to show dissidence, it is often by means of minor deviations from calendrical orthodoxy.
Boylston, T. 2018. Fasting, Bodies, and the Calendar. In: Boylston, T, The Stranger at the Feast. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.44.c
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Published on Jan. 12, 2018