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| | The African, and Spiritual, Origins of Carnival |
 | | As in the carnival itself, separation must be drawn between the mask and the masquerader. |
 | | Most societies also have the idea of the masquerade or the costume in one or another form, whether in the theater of social or religious ritual, the theater of the stage or drama, or the theater of the street or parade. |
 | | We also need to focus on the differences between the European and African cultural expressions that the Europeans call carnival, that the Africans call something else, which from a New World African perspective appears to be lost, but which, in the abstract, is a form of theater of the street... |
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