Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan by Janice Boddy

Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan

New Directions in Anthropological Writing

Janice Boddy

424 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ma...

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