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

ISBN: 0299123146

ISBN13: 9780299123147

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

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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 z?r 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. Through the woman, the spirit makes demands upon her husband and family and makes...

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