Victim and Its Masks An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb

Name: Victim and Its Masks An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
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ISBN: 9780226315256

ISBN-10: 0226315258

ISBN-13: 9780226315256

Edition: 1993

Authors: Abdellah Hammoudi, Paula Wissing

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Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface to the English Edition


Preface Note on Transcription


Introduction



Toward a Systematic Ethnography of the Festival



Colonial Anthropology on the Sacrifice and the Masquerade: In Search of a Lost Religion



Human Action in Its Environment: Concerning Some Structural Tensions



The Sacrifice



Narratives about Bilmawn: The Scenario



Bilmawn Observed: Street Theater



Local Exegesis II. The Sacrifice and the Masquerade Interpreted



Theoretical Approaches



Prayer and Preparation of the Victim: Ideal Community, and the Division and Hierarchy of Ritual Roles



The Rite and the Myth: Sense and Nonsense about the Sacrifice



The Masks and Their Forays: Marginality, Hyperdefinition, and the Revenge of the Son



On Indetermination and the Deceptions of a Second Founding Drama


Notes


Index