Wombs and Alien Spirits

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“Wombs and Alien Spirits is a provocative book on women and religion and a valuable addition to the literature on Sudan.”—Victoria Bernal, The Middle East Journal About the Author Janice Boddy is associate professor of anthropology at the University of by:   Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan.

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 /5. “Wombs and Alien Spirits is a provocative book on women and religion and a valuable addition to the literature on Sudan.”—Victoria Bernal, The Middle East Journal About the Author Janice Boddy is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto/5(14).

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 : $   "Wombs and Alien Spirits is a provocative book on women and religion and a valuable addition to the literature on Sudan."--Victoria Bernal, The Middle East Journal Wombs and Alien Spirits is a provocative book on women and religion and a valuable addition to the literature on Sudan/5(65).

Wombs and Alien Spirits Book Summary: 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 spirits very different from their own.

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.

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 marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers.

Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. University of Wisconsin Press, The subject of this book is spirit possession.

But equally, it describes the cultural and social context that produces a particular system of possessionCited by: (DOC) Book Review: Wombs and Alien Spirits | Nour Shtayyeh - In a multi-faceted, captivating and thorough analysis of the zar cult of Northern Sudan, Janice Boddy's Wombs and Alien Spirits produces a wonderful contribution to the anthropological literatures on gender studies, religion, spirit possession.

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 spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as by: 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 spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers. 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. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Spain New directions in anthropological writing: : Janice Boddy: Libros en idiomas extranjeros/5(7).

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Wombs and alien spirits: women, men, and the Zar cult in northern Sudan. Author: Boddy, Janice. Publication info: Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, c 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.

"Wombs and Alien Spirits is a provocative book on women and religion and a valuable addition to the literature on Sudan."--Victoria Bernal, The Middle East Journal. Synopsis. Adherents to the "zar" cult in northern Sudan encounter spirits that are parallels of historically relevant figures in the known human world/5(12).

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 spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as : Janice Boddy.

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Add to My Bookmarks Export citation. Type Book Author(s) Janice Patricia Boddy Date Publisher University of Wisconsin Press Pub place London, Madison, Wis Volume New directions in anthropological writing ISBN“Wombs and Alien Spirits is a provocative book on women and religion and a valuable addition to the literature on Sudan.”—Victoria Bernal, The Middle East Journal.

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