Title Wombs and alien spirits : women, men, and the Zār cult in northern Sudan / Janice Boddy

Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1989] ©1989

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Description xxi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series New directions in anthropological writing New directions in anthropological writing. Contents The human world. Departures ; Enclosures ; Boundaries and indeterminacies -- Women, men, and spirits. Za ̄r ; Possession, marriage, and fertility ; Zaineb and Umselima : possession as a family idiom ; Hosts and spirits -- Allegories of the spirit world. The parallel universe ; Two ceremonies ; Arrivals : allegory and otherness Analysis Arab women Ethnology Sudan Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Islamic marriage customs and rites -- Sudan. Muslim women -- Sudan. Sex customs -- Sudan. Spirit possession -- Sudan. Zār -- Sudan. Author American Council of Learned Societies. LC no. 89040250 ISBN 0299123103 0299123146 (paperback)

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