Food and Drink
This mini collection foregrounds the dynamics between food and religion and includes ethnographic and historical material. It is part of the Encounters & Identities: Religion in Private and Public Spheres Collection.
It includes book chapters and journal articles and is updated as new material is indexed and added to this site.
For the Gamo Boreda people, living in the highlands of southern Ethiopia, beer drinking represents status and seniority and is believed to connect the living with their ancestors. Here, women in a village prepare to carry a beer jar to a local wedding. Photography:John W. Arthur Citation