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New Directions in Anthropological Writing

Wombs and Alien Spirits

Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan

Janice Boddy

Wombs and Alien Spirits

New Directions in Anthropological Writing

Wombs and Alien Spirits

Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan

New Directions in Anthropological Writing: Wombs and Alien Spirits

 

Adherents to the ""zar"" cult in northern Sudan encounter spirits that are parallels of historically relevant figures in the known human world. Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village this study offers a multidimensional interpretation of the ""zar"".


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Beschrijving New Directions in Anthropological Writing: Wombs and Alien Spirits

Adherents to the ""zar"" cult in northern Sudan encounter spirits that are parallels of historically relevant figures in the known human world. Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village this study offers a multidimensional interpretation of the ""zar"".


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9780299123147
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399
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New Directions in Anthropological Writing
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Nederlands
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Univ of Wisconsin Pr