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Ritual Masking

Ritual Masking is a performative practice within ritual performance studies in which a participant wears a mask to embody sacred, ancestral, or supernatural identities, thereby enacting transformative, symbolic, or liturgical functions that mediate between the profane and the sacred.

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Publications

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Masked performance: the play of self and other in ritual and theatre

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 69 citations

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Masks and Ritual Performance on the Island of Cyprus

Erin Walcek Averett · American Journal of Archaeology · 2014 · 42 citations

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Ritual masks: deceptions and revelations

Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 37 citations

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Masks and masquerade in the Early Neolithic: a view from Upper Mesopotamia

Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, Laura Dietrich · Time and Mind · 2018 · 29 citations

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Masking in Mende Sande Society Initiation Rituals

Ruth B. Phillips · Africa · 1978 · 25 citations

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Authors

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  1. LS
    Laura S. Grillo

    Pacifica Graduate Institute, United States

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  2. RA
    René A. Bravmann

    2 publications · 20 citations

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  3. RB
    Ruth B. Phillips

    Carleton University, Canada

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  4. JN
    Jens Notroff

    Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale, Germany

    1 publications · 29 citations

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  5. TF
    Till Förster

    Indiana State University, United States

    2 publications · 22 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Creighton University

    Omaha, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    42 citations

  2. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale

    Berlin, Germany

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    87 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 106 citations

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  2. African Arts

    2 publications · 21 citations

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  3. Africa

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  4. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. Time and Mind

    1 publications · 29 citations

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