The Victim and its Masks
Abdellah (University of Princeton) Hammoudi
The University of Chicago Press, 1993
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780226315256
- ISBN-10
- 0226315258
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 1993
- Publication date
- 1993-11-01
- Pages
- 216
- Dimensions
- 238x160x21
- Weight
- 424