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The Victim and its Masks : An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
The Victim and its Masks An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
Author: Abdellah Hammoudi
Each year, in a solemn Sunni Muslim feast, the Ait Mizane of southern Morocco reenact the story of Abraham as a ritual sacrifice, a symbolic observance of their submission to the divine. After this sober ceremony comes a bacchanalian masquerade which seems to violate every principle the sacrifice affirmed. Because of the apparent contradiction b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226315263
ISBN-10: 0226315266
Publication Date: 11/1/1993
Pages: 216
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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