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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.

The Victim Its Masks An Essay on Sacrifice and

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 11/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226315256, 978-0226315256
      ISBN10: 0226315258
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      Social and cultural anthropology Sociology Islam

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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