The Sudanese Zar Tumbura Cult

ISBN-13: 9781032394039 / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str.

Gerasimos Makris

Opis

This book offers a historically-sensitive ethnography of the zār ṭumbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan.

Spis treści

Introduction: struggling for meaning

1 The slaves and the free

2 The spirit and the process

3 The difficult years and the spark of hope

4 Ṭumbura and the ᶜirūg magical roots

5 Ṭumbura and the new autonomy of Azraq Benda

6 Epilogue: hoping for a new start

O autorze

Gerasimos Makris is a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University in Athens, Greece.