1st Edition
The Sudanese Zār Ṭumbura Cult Slaves, Armies, Spirits and History
By Gerasimos Makris
Copyright 2024
284 Pages
10 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
284 Pages
10 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
284 Pages
10 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. It considers the history and transformations of ṭumbura , from the 19th-century slaving era to the present post-Islamist autocracy. The chapters examine the ṭumbura spiritual universe and... Read more
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
Biography
Gerasimos Makris is a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University in Athens, Greece.
