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

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Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village in northern Sudan, Wombs and Alien Spirits explores the zâr cult, the most widely practiced traditional healing cult in Africa. Adherents of the cult are usually women with marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by sp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boddy, Janice Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1989.
Colección:New directions in anthropological writing.
Temas:
Muslim women > Sudan.
Zār > Sudan.
Islamic marriage customs and rites > Sudan.
Spirit possession > Sudan.
Sex customs > Sudan.
Spirit Possession
Musulmanes > Soudan.
Zār > Soudan.
Mariage > Rites et cérémonies islamiques > Soudan.
Possession par les esprits > Soudan.
Vie sexuelle > Soudan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Islamic marriage customs and rites
Muslim women
Sex customs
Spirit possession
Zār
Zar-Kult > Synkretismus
Besessenheitskult
Muslimin
Hochzeit
Brauch
Geister
Kult
Huwelijksgebruiken.
Riten.
Islam.
Zar-Kult (Synkretismus)
Sudan
Sudan > Nord
Sudan (Nord)
Arab women > Ethnology
Ethnography.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The human world. Departures ; Enclosures ; Boundaries and indeterminacies
  • Women, men, and spirits. Zār ; 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.

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