The victim and its masks
an essay on sacrifice and masquerade in the Maghreb
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Author
Publication
1993 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
49,750 words, Guess
Page Count
199 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1739324M
- ISBN-100226315258
- OCLC Control Number27265476
- OCLC Control Numbervictimitsmaskses0000hamm
- Library of Congress Control Number92044672
and 2 more
- Goodreads1114934
- LibraryThing1687158
Classifications
- DDC394.2/68297/0964
- LCCDT328.M53 H3613 1993
Description
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 between sacrifice and masquerade, observers have described the two as entirely separate events. This book reunites them as a single ritual process within Islamic tradition. -- Publisher description.
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