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Title: | Missatges autoreferencials dels actors del ritual de l'Id-al-adˇha |
Author: | Alonso Cabré, Marta |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | (Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social (ISSN 2013-0864) |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 73-92 |
Language: | Catalan |
Geographic terms: | Mauritania Spain |
Subjects: | Islam sacrificial rites social stratification |
External link: | https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/325612927.pdf |
Abstract: | This paper examines the celebration of Id-al-ad-ha or festival of sacrifice, which is a ritual performed by the Muslim community on the 10th day of the dhu-al-hijja month. The analysis is based on ethnographic examples taken from the Muslim diaspora in the area of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) and the Mauritanian emiral society. The phenomenon is explored through the roles played by the ritual actors. The text stresses the idea that every ritual is embedded in the specific social context from which it arises and that, at the same time, it works as a modulator of that very context by means of what Roy Rappaport calls 'auto-referential messages'. This point does not exclude the existence of a set of common denominators or canonical messages among the ritual practices in question. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in Catalan, Spanish, English and French, text in Catalan. [Journal abstract] |