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