Meat Matters: Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel

by Hagar Salamon

Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty years of fieldwork, this beautifully written and innovatively constructed ethnography tells the story of the Beta Israel, who began immigrating from Ethiopia to Israel in the 1970s. Once in Israel, their world changed in formerly unimaginable ways, such as conversion under Rabbinic restrictions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253065771
• ISBN13: 9780253065773
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher