The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb

Hammoudi, Abdellah

ISBN 10: 0226315266 / ISBN 13: 9780226315263

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1993

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Abdellah Hammoudi is professor of anthropology and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on ...
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good