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

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 spi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Boddy, Janice Patricia
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1989.
Series:	New directions in anthropological writing.
Subjects:	Muslim women > Sudan. Zār > Sudan. Islamic marriage customs and rites > Sudan. Spirit possession > Sudan. Sex customs > Sudan. Islamic marriage customs and rites. Muslim women. Sex customs. Spirit possession. Zār. Sudan.