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

Publication Info.	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1989]
	©1989

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Description	1 online resource (xxi, 399 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	New directions in anthropological writing
	New directions in anthropological writing.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-383) and index.
Contents	The human world. Departures ; Enclosures ; Boundaries and indeterminacies -- Women, men, and spirits. Zār ; 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.
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Subject	Muslim women -- Sudan.
	Muslim women.
	Sudan.
	Zār -- Sudan.
	Zār.
	Islamic marriage customs and rites -- Sudan.
	Islamic marriage customs and rites.
	Spirit possession -- Sudan.
	Spirit possession.
	Sex customs -- Sudan.
	Sex customs.
Indexed Term	Arab women Ethnology
	Sudan
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Sexual practices.
Other Form:	Print version: Boddy, Janice Patricia. Wombs and alien spirits. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1989 (DLC) 89040250 (OCoLC)20014447
ISBN	9780299123130 (electronic book)
	0299123138 (electronic book)
	1282788167
	9781282788169
	0299123103
	9780299123109
	0299123146 (paperback)
	9780299123147 (paperback)