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Wombs and alien spirits: women, men, and the Zār cult in northern Sudan
Janice Patricia Boddy-
Frontmatter
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Tables and Figures (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Note on Transliteration (page xiii)
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Glossary (page xv)
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Prologue (page 3)
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Part 1 The Human World
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Chapter 1 Departures (page 13)
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Chapter 2 Enclosures (page 47)
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Chapter 3 Boundaries and Indeterminacies (page 89)
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Part 2 Women, Men, and Spirits
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Chapter 4 Zār (page 125)
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Chapter 5 Possession, Marriage, and Fertility (page 166)
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Chapter 6 Zaineb and Umselima: Possession as a Family Idiom (page 194)
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Chapter 7 Hosts and Spirits (page 238)
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Part 3 Allegories of the Spirit World
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Chapter 8 The Parallel Universe (page 269)
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Chapter 9 Two Ceremonies (page 310)
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Chapter 10 Arrivals: Allegory and Otherness (page 337)
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References (page 363)
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Index (page 385)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JRelA | 21.2 (May 1991): 174-175 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1580805 |
JSSR | 30.2 (June 1991): 240-241 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1387243 |
Man | 26.2 (June 1991): 359-360 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2803851 |
AE | 20.2 (May 1993): 425-426 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/645688 |
CJAS | 25.3 (1991): 482-484 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/485984 |
AANTH | 93.3 (Sept. 1991): 757-758 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/680011 |
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Published: c1989
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
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