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424 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780299123147
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 15 December 1989
Description
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 ma...
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424 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780299123147
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 15 December 1989
Description
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 ma...