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 | The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb (1st Edition) by Abdellah Hammoudi, Paula Wissing (Translator) Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-226-31526-6 / 0226315266 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31526-3 / 9780226315263 Each year, in a solemn Sunni Muslim feast, 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. Costumed men sing | |