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.
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Abdellah Hammoudi is professor of anthropology and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University.
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Goethe's remark about the Roman carnival could easily apply to the festival that I describe and interpret in this book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
repas sacrificiels, choses berbères, pagan survivals, threshing ground Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ait Mizane, Ali Fdal, North Africa, Edward Westermarck, Sidi Shamharush, Edmond Doutté, Emile Laoust, Marcel Detienne, Upper Atlas, Lord Mohammed, Pot-Bellied Ali, Victor Turner New!
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Goethe's remark about the Roman carnival could easily apply to the festival that I describe and interpret in this book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
repas sacrificiels, choses berbères, pagan survivals, threshing ground Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ait Mizane, Ali Fdal, North Africa, Edward Westermarck, Sidi Shamharush, Edmond Doutté, Emile Laoust, Marcel Detienne, Upper Atlas, Lord Mohammed, Pot-Bellied Ali, Victor Turner New!
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- Ritual and Belief in Morocco (2 volume set) by Edward Westermarck on 6 pages
- Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks by Marcel Detienne in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nuer Religion by Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Gardens of Adonis by Marcel Detienne in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (New Americanists) by Brian T. Edwards on page 286, page 299, and Back Matter
- Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond by Walter Armbrust on page 152, and Back Matter
- The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology (Series in Culture, Cognition, and Behavior) by Gary S. Gregg on page 285, and Back Matter
- Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism by Abdellah Hammoudi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture, and Politics by Elliott Colla in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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