The Victim and its Masks
An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
The Ait Mazine of northern Morocco reenact the story of Abraham as a ritual sacrifice, a symbolic observance of submission to the divine. After comes a bacchanalian masquerade which seems to violate every principle the sacrifice affirmed. This study reunites them as a single ritual process.
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| ISBN/EAN | 9780226315256 |
| Auteur | Abdellah (University of Princeton) Hammoudi |
| Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Gebonden in harde band |
| Pagina's | 216 |
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