The Sudanese Zar ¿umbura Cult Slaves, Armies, Spirits and History
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Erscheinungsdatum
30.11.2023
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Taylor & Francis eBooksSeitenzahl
284 (Printausgabe)
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1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
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9781003802594
This book offers a historically sensitive ethnography of the zar ¿umbura 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 ¿umbura, from the 19th-century slaving era to the present post-Islamist autocracy. The chapters examine the ¿umbura spiritual universe and ceremonial life, its relation to the more popular female cult of zar bore and to other now extinct forms of celebrating the zar spirit(s), as well as ¿umbura's combination of possession, sorcery, ancestor worship and ¿ufi piety. Based on long-term fieldwork, the study shows how successive generations of subaltern cult devotees construct a positive self-identity based on an alternative reading of Sudanese history. The author explores the edges of Sudanese Islamic religiosity and probes the limits of anthropological classifications concerning religious experience. Situating ¿umbura in its wider context, the book discusses subaltern modes of historicity in their articulation with dominant conceptions of history, traces the legacy of slavery and the role of memory and invites comparisons with Middle Eastern, Sahelian and even New World societies regarding stigmatised identities, slavery, race, memory and history. It will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, history, religious studies, Islamic studies and African studies.
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