The Victim and Its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226315266
ISBN13:9780226315263
Release Date:November 1993
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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