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...

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Main Author: Palmeirim, Manuela 19XX- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 452-478
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Zanzibar / Swahili (People) / Healing / Ritual / Magic / Deception
IxTheo 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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