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Wombs and Alien Spirits : Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Anthropological Writing SeriesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1989Copyright date: ©1989Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (425 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299123130
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wombs and Alien SpiritsLOC classification:
  • HQ1793
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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