The ratiep art form of South African muslims.

The ratiep is a peculiarly South African trance-linked art form characterised by stabbings with sharp objects to the arms and other bodily parts, the piercing of the ear-lobes, the cheeks and the tongue by alwaan (skewers), the performance of certain standard dhikr to the accompaniment of the rebann...

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Main Author: Desai, Desmond.
Other Authors: Parker, Beverly Lewis.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8929