TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boddy,Janice Patricia
TI  - Wombs and alien spirits: women, men, and the Zar cult in northern Sudan 
AV  - HQ1793 .W663 1989
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Madison, Wisconsin
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Sudan
KW  - Zar
KW  - Islamic marriage customs and rites
KW  - Spirit possession
N1  - 4; 1 (pages 363-383); 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; 2
ER  -