id
	12795
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/12795
Modèle de ressource
	Book
Classe de ressource
	bibo:Book
Titre
	Women's Medicine: The Zar-Bori Cult in Africa and Beyond
Sujet
	gender
	rite
	Bori religion
	faith healing
	witchcraft
	Somalia
	Sudan
	Ethiopia
	healing
	spirit possession
	North Africa
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25191
Date
	1991
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8541
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312371 Q117312371
	iwac-reference-0000715
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322
Résumé
	The largest indigenous cult in Africa concerned primarly with women's complaints, the zar-bori cult extends from West Africa to the Sudan and North Africa and has spread into the middle east. Combining historical, anthropological and psychiatric insights, Women's Medicine presents an integrated study of this spirit-healing cult. In this first, comprehensive account, zar-bori's origins, spread and persistence and its importance in the lives of women, even in such 'modernised' settings as Egypt, Tunisia and the Gulf States, throws new light on the environments in which such subversive cults thrive. Previous studies have treated zar and bori as separate phenomena. This is the first work which shows how they are related and how they have developed over time and space.
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/540
Provenance
	Edinburgh
Liste des rédacteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/15786
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/15781
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/15778
Nombre de pages
	322

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