The Illusion of Reality and the Reality of Illusion: Staged Performance, Trickery, and Prestidigitation in Ritual
This article reflects on the role of staged and rehearsed performance, trickery, and prestidigitation in ritual, acts that many anthropologists have observed and registered in their ethnographic accounts but most often took to be fraud, and consequently were discarded from their analyses and interpr...
| Published in: | Journal of religion in Africa |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
2021
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| In: |
Journal of religion in Africa
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Zanzibar
/ Swahili (People)
/ Healing
/ Ritual
/ Magic
/ Deception
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BS Traditional African religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Swahili
B Ritual B trickery B Healing B Sorcery |
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