From: Elsbeth Robson <gea06-AT-cc.keele.ac.uk> Subject: Re: my messages? Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:34:09 +0100 (BST) Dear Mary your projetc sounds fascinating - what discipline is your PhD registered in I wonder. Have you looked at Janice Boddy's book 1989 'Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan' Univ. Wisconsin Press - according to the cover blurb (i have not read the book in depth) that spirit possession is a feminist discourse, focus of resistance for women etc. Not sure if it's what you are after. My own PhD work is in Northern Nigeria and i know of several works on spirit possession there known as bori but not all focus on women. one that does is a chapter by Nicole Echard 'Gender relationships and religion: women in the Hausa Bori of Ader, Niger' in Catherine Coles & Beverly Mack (eds) 1991 'Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century' Univ. Wisconsin Press. hope these could be helpful ****************************** Elsbeth Robson Lecturer in Development Studies Department of Geography University of Keele, Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)1782 583160 Direct tel: +44 (0)1782 584339 Fax: +44 (0)1782 584144 E-mail: gea06-AT-keele.ac.uk
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