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    • The Buda Crisis

    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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    In 2008-09, Zege experienced a crisis of buda spirit attacks centered around the local marketplace. This chapter demonstrates how buda have been tied to various excluded minority categories in Ethiopia and also to those who make a living by trade. In so doing, I show how the spirit crisis reveals the destabilizing of local elite norms of hospitality and moral exchange.

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    Anthropology 

    Keywords:

    marginalization buda witchcraft moral economy hospitality 

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    Boylston, T. 2018. The Buda Crisis. In: Boylston, T, The Stranger at the Feast. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.44.f
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    Published on Jan. 12, 2018

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    https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.44.f