Author: Hammoudi, Abdellah
Title: The Victim & its Masks : An Essay on Sacrifice & Masquerade in the Maghreb
Description: Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xv,199,(8) pp, Translated by Paula Wissing.. 8pp photoplates. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Toward a Systematic Ethnography of the Festival: Colonial Anthropology on the Sacrifice & 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: His Preparation & Accession; Bilmawn Observed: Street Theater; Local Exegesis; The Sacrifice & the Masquerade Interpreted: Theoretical Approaches; Prayer & Preparation of the Victim: Ideal Community, & the Division & Hierarchy of Ritual Roles; The Rite & the Myth: Sense & Nonsense about the Sacrifice; The Masks & their Forays: Marginality, Hyperdefinition, & the Revenge of the Son; On Indetermination & the Deceptions of a Second Founding Drama.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Maghreb, Berber Ethnography, Morocco Berbers, Sunni Islam, Ritual Sacrifice, Masquerade, Religious Festivals, Folk Religion