Machine derived contents note: 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
