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Periodical articlePlancke, Carine (2011)
See this publicationThe spirit's wish: possession trance and female power among the Punu of Congo-Brazzaville
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 41 #4. p. 366-395.

Periodical articleMiyawaki, Yukio (2009)
See this publicationConstructing a new imagined space: idioms of alien cultures in the 'Ayana' possession cults of the Hor in South Omo
Nilo-Ethiopian Studies. #13. p. 17-32.

Periodical articleNgoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa (2009)
Recovering the tongue: memorializing grieved women through spirit possession and ritual in Zimbabwean literature
African Identities. Volume 7 #4. p. 451-461.

Dissertation / thesisSlegh, Henny (2009)
See this publicationBetween spirits and rights: social navigation of women in Southern Mozambique
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 73p.

Periodical articleParle, Julie (2003)
See this publicationWitchcraft or Madness? The Amandiki of Zululand, 1894-1914
Abstract presentJournal of Southern African Studies. Volume 29 #1. March. p. 105-132.

BookKrasberg, Ulrike (2002)
Die Ekstasetänzerinnen von Sîdî Mustafa: eine theater-ethnologische Untersuchung
Berlin: Reimer. 244p.

Periodical articleO'Brien, Susan M. (2001)
Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria
Abstract presentInterventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Volume 3 #2. p. 222-241.

Periodical articleSmith, James Howard (2001)
See this publicationOf Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education and Their Enchantments in Neo-Liberal Kenya
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 31 #4. p. 427-456.

Dissertation / thesisO'Brien, S. (2000)
Power and paradox in Hausa bori: Discourses of gender, healing and Islamic tradition in Northern Nigeria
Ph.D. dissertation. University of Wisconsin. 299p.

Dissertation / thesisSengers, Gerda Cornelia (2000)
Vrouwen en demonen: Zar en korangenezing in hedendaags Egypte
Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. 269p.

BookBehrend, Heike; Luig, Ute (eds.) (1999)
Spirit possession: modernity & power in Africa
Abstract presentOxford: Currey. 170p.

Book chapterKenyon, Susan M. (1999)
The Case of the Butcher's Wife: Illness, Possession and Power in Central Sudan
Abstract presentIn: Behrend, Heike; Luig, Ute (eds.), Spirit possession: modernity & power in Africa. Oxford/Kampala/Cape Town/Madison, Wisconsin: James Currey/Fountain Publishers/David Philip/University of Wisconsin Press. p. 89-108.

Book chapterSousa, Alexandra O. de (1999)
Defunct Women: Possession among the Bijagós Islanders
In: Behrend, Heike; Luig, Ute (eds.), Spirit possession: modernity & power in Africa. Oxford/Kampala/Cape Town/Madison, Wisconsin: James Currey/Fountain Publishers/David Philip/University of Wisconsin Press. p. 81-88.

Periodical articleSpaulding, Jay (1999)
The 'Bum': A Berta River Spirit and the Women Who Love Her
Sudan Notes and Records. #3. p. 45-50.

Book chapterMasquelier, Adeline (1996)
Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in 'Bori' (Southern Niger)
Abstract presentIn: Hendrickson, Hildi (ed.), Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. p. 66-93.

Periodical articleKenyon, S.M. (1995)
Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan
Anthropological Quarterly. Volume 68 #2. p. 107-120.

Periodical articleMasquelier, Adeline M. (1995)
See this publicationConsumption, Prostitution, and Reproduction: The Poetics of Sweetness in Bori
Abstract presentAmerican Ethnologist. Volume 22 #4. November. p. 883-906.

Periodical articleMatory, James Lorand (1994)
See this publicationRival Empires: Islam and the Religions of Spirit Possession among the Oyo-Yoruba
American Ethnologist. Volume 21 #3. August. p. 495-515.

Periodical articleRasmussen, Susan J. (1994)
See this publicationThe 'Head Dance', Contested Self, and Art as a Balancing Act in Tuareg Spirit Possession
Abstract presentAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute. Volume 64 #1. p. 74-98.

Dissertation / thesisMasquelier, Adeline M. (1993)
Ritual Economies, Historical Mediations: The Poetics and Power of Bori among the Mawri of Niger
Ph.D. dissertation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 410p.

Dissertation / thesisO'Brien, Susan (1993)
Spirit possession as historical source: Gender, Islam, and healing in Hausa bori
master thesis. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 139p.

BookLewis, Ioan M.; Safi, Ahmed al-; Hurreiz, Sayyid Hamid (eds.) (1991)
Women's Medicine: The Zar-Bori Cult in Africa and beyond
Abstract presentBased on an international African seminar held at the University of Khartoum, Sudan Republic, in January 1988. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute. International African Seminars New Series #5. 299p.

BookBoddy, Janice (1989)
Wombs and alien spirits: women, men and the Zar cult in Northern Sudan
Abstract presentMadison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. New directions in anthropological writing. 399p.

Periodical articleNatvig, Richard (1987)
See this publicationOromos, Slaves, and the Zar Spirits: A Contribution to the History of the Zar Cult
Abstract presentInternational Journal of African Historical Studies. Volume 20 #4. p. 669-689.

Book chapterRamamonjisoa, Suzy-Andrée (1987)
Symbolique des rapports entre les femmes et les hommes dans les cultes de possession de type tromba à Madagascar
Abstract presentIn: Parkin, David; Nyamwaya, David (eds.), Transformations of African Marriage. Manchester, Great Britain: Manchester University Press. p. 155-169.

Periodical articleAlpers, Edward A. (1984)
See this publication'Ordinary Household Chores': Ritual and Power in a Nineteenth-Century Swahili Women's Spirit Possession Cult
Abstract presentInternational Journal of African Historical Studies. Volume 17 #4. p. 677-702.

Book chapterEchard, Nicole (1984)
La participation des femmes au culte de possession Hausa, Ader, Niger
Abstract presentIn: Les cahiers du Grif. #29. p. 53-56.

Book chapterConstantinides, P. (1978)
Women's spirit possession and urban adaptation in the Muslim Northern Sudan
In: Women united, women divided: Cross-cultural perspectives on female solidarity. p. 185-205.

Dissertation / thesisNagar, S.a.a. (1973)
Spirit possession and social change in Omdurman
master thesis. University of Khartoum.

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