The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb by Abdellah Hammoudi, Paula Wissing

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

Abdellah Hammoudi, Paula Wissing

216 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

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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 wh...

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