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History of civilization --- Sex customs --- Sexual ethics --- History

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-Erotica --- History of civilization --- History of human medicine --- Sexology --- Antiquity --- Erotica. --- Sex customs --- Erotica --- #GOSA:II.P.AU.1 --- Eroticism --- Pornography --- Greece --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Rome --- Sex customs - Rome. --- Sex customs - Greece.

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Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village in northern Sudan, Wombs and Alien Spirits explores the zâr cult, the most widely practiced traditional healing cult in Africa. Adherents of the cult are usually women with marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers. Through the woman, the spirit makes demands upon her husband and family and makes provocative comments on village issues, such as the increasing influence of formal Islam or encroaching Western economic domination. In accommodating the spirits, the women are able metaphorically to reformulate everyday discourse to portray consciousness of their own subordination. Janice Boddy examines the moral universe of the village, discussing female circumcision, personhood, kinship, and bodily integrity, then describes the workings of the cult and the effect of possession on the lives of men as well as women. She suggests that spirit possession is a feminist discourse, though a veiled and allegorical one, on women's objectification and subordination. Additionally, the spirit world acts as a foil for village life in the context of rapid historical change and as such provides a focus for cultural resistance that is particularly, though not exclusively, relevant to women. -- Publisher description

Muslim women --- Zār --- Islamic marriage customs and rites --- Spirit possession --- Sex customs --- Zar

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Marriage customs and rites, Islamic --- Sex customs --- Muslim women --- Musulmanes --- Sexual behavior --- Sexualité --- Islamic marriage customs and rites. --- Sexualité --- Sexual behavior.

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This book is a study of the institution of temporary marriage, mut'a, and its practice, popularly known as sigheh, in contemporary Iran. (preface)

Temporary marriage --- Sex customs --- Muta --- 297.15 --- 297.15 Islam: ethiek; religieuze wetten --- Islam: ethiek; religieuze wetten --- Marriage --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Mutʻah --- Marriage (Islamic law) --- Temporary marriage - Iran --- Sex customs - Iran