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Wombs and alien spirits: women, men, and the Zār cult in northern Sudan

Janice Patricia Boddy c1989 © University of Wisconsin Press
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Series
  • ATLA Special Series
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299123147 (paper)
  • 9780299123130 (ebook)
  • 9780299123109 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Tables and Figures (page ix )
  • Acknowledgments (page xi )
  • Note on Transliteration (page xiii )
  • Glossary (page xv )
  • Prologue (page 3 )
  • Part 1 The Human World
    • Chapter 1 Departures (page 13 )
    • Chapter 2 Enclosures (page 47 )
    • Chapter 3 Boundaries and Indeterminacies (page 89 )
  • Part 2 Women, Men, and Spirits
    • Chapter 4 Zār (page 125 )
    • Chapter 5 Possession, Marriage, and Fertility (page 166 )
    • Chapter 6 Zaineb and Umselima: Possession as a Family Idiom (page 194 )
    • Chapter 7 Hosts and Spirits (page 238 )
  • Part 3 Allegories of the Spirit World
    • Chapter 8 The Parallel Universe (page 269 )
    • Chapter 9 Two Ceremonies (page 310 )
    • Chapter 10 Arrivals: Allegory and Otherness (page 337 )
  • References (page 363 )
  • Index (page 385 )
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JRelA 21.2 (May 1991): 174-175 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1580805
JSSR 30.2 (June 1991): 240-241 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1387243
Man 26.2 (June 1991): 359-360 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2803851
AE 20.2 (May 1993): 425-426 http://www.jstor.org/stable/645688
CJAS 25.3 (1991): 482-484 http://www.jstor.org/stable/485984
AANTH 93.3 (Sept. 1991): 757-758 http://www.jstor.org/stable/680011
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