Title: The victim and its masks
First published: 1993
Description: 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. -- Publisher description.
Subjects: Religious life and customs, Social life and customs, Berbers, Rites and ceremonies, Islam, Sacrifice, Maskeraden, Riten, Opferritus, Maskerade, Berber, Manners and customs
Places: Morocco, Middle Atlas Mountains, Middle atlas Mountains (Morocco)
LC classification: DT328.M53 H3613 1993