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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Moors and Christians in the Sicilian figurative and performance tradition

Gabriella D'agostino

subject

Moors/Christianfigurative cultureSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheSicilyperformance

description

Among the different forms of the East/West dichotomy, one is recursive in the Sicilian figurative and performative tradition: the opposition between Moors and Christians. From ex-voto paintings to some traditional festivals and, above all, puppet theatre, this dichotomy grounds a cosmology, a reference system to convey an order to the world. This essay presents some examples.

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/568082