The Victim and its Masks

Preface to the English Edition
Preface
Note on Transcription
Introduction
I. Toward a Systematic Ethnography of the Festival
1. Colonial Anthropology on the Sacrifice and the Masquerade: In Search of a Lost Religion
2. Human Action in Its Environment: Concerning Some Structural Tensions
3. The Sacrifice
4. Narratives about Bilmawn: The Scenario
5. Bilmawn Observed: Street Theater
7. Local Exegesis
II. The Sacrifice and the Masquerade Interpreted
8. Theoretical Approaches
9. Prayer and Preparation of the Victim: Ideal Community, and the Division and Hierarchy of Ritual Roles
10. The Rite and the Myth: Sense and Nonsense about the Sacrifice
11. The Masks and Their Forays: Marginality, Hyperdefinition, and the Revenge of the Son
12. On Indetermination and the Deceptions of a Second Founding Drama
Notes
Index