Meat Matters

Hagar Salamon is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Chair in Folklore and Head of the Graduate Program for Folklore and Folk Culture Studies and Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Israel in the Making.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Enduring Exposures: Everyday Bonding with Creatures 2. Zooming In: Creaturely Sentiments 3. Zooming Out: Emerging from the Pen 4. Shifting Lenses: Interreligious Negotiations 5. Transpositions 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 Glossary References

"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 "The book is written by an academic ethnographer but is written for the most part in an easy-going, relaxed style which was a pleasure to follow. Even readers who are not ethnographers or academics of any kind would find this book a stimulating and well-balanced study of a fascinating social tradition that has had to be adapted to modern lifestyles."-Henry Schwarcz - McMaster University, Sephardic Horizons "Meat Matters is an exceptional ethnography, a sensitive and insightful analysis of contemporary migration that goes well beyond cows and meat and beyond Ethiopia and Israel. It touches on some of the most intriguing and complicated aspects of migration from the Global South into (Israel's unique version of) the Global North, exploring and questioning social and cultural processes of continuity and change."-Rami Zeedan, Druze Studies Journals