TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boddy,Janice
TI  - Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
T2  - New Directions in Anthropological Writing Series
SN  - 9780299123130
AV  - HQ1793 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Muslim women-Sudan
KW  - Zār-Sudan
KW  - Islamic marriage customs and rites-Sudan
KW  - Spirit possession-Sudan
KW  - Sex customs-Sudan
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Glossary -- Prologue -- Part 1: The Human World -- Chapter 1: Departures -- Chapter 2: Enclosures -- Chapter 3: Boundaries and Indeterminacies -- Part 2: Women, Men, and Spirits -- Chapter 4: Zār -- Chapter 5: Possession, Marriage, and Fertility -- Chapter 6: Zaineb and Umselima: Possession as a Family Idiom -- Chapter 7: Hosts and Spirits -- Part 3: Allegories of the Spirit World -- Chapter 8: The Parallel Universe -- Chapter 9: Two Ceremonies -- Chapter 10: Arrivals: Allegory and Otherness -- References -- Index
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