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Islam and Sufism

Wombs and Alien Spirits

Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan

by Janice Boddy

An anthropological study of the zar spirit-possession cult among women in a northern Sudanese village. Boddy analyses possession as a way in which women reflect on gender, the body and their society.

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