Wombs and alien spirits : women, men, and the Zar cult in northern Sudan /
Janice Boddy.
- Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, (c)1989.
- xxi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
The human world. Departures ; Enclosures ; Boundaries and indeterminacies -- Women, men, and spirits. Zar ; 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.
89040250 //r94
C91-1221-0
Muslim women--Sudan. Zar--Sudan. Islamic marriage customs and rites--Sudan. Spirit possession--Sudan.