o:id
	12795
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12795
o:resource_template
	Book
o:resource_class
	bibo:Book
dcterms:title
	Women's Medicine: The Zar-Bori Cult in Africa and Beyond
dcterms:subject
	gender
	rite
	Bori religion
	faith healing
	witchcraft
	Somalia
	Sudan
	Ethiopia
	healing
	spirit possession
	North Africa
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25191
dcterms:date
	1991
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8541
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312371 Q117312371
	iwac-reference-0000715
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	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.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
dcterms:provenance
	Edinburgh
bibo:editorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/15786
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/15781
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/15778
bibo:numPages
	322

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