PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

In press Chasing the Wind: the Challenges of Studying Spirit Possession. In Missionary Impositions: Conversion, Resistance, and other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography, edited Hillary Crane and Deana Weibel. Lexington Books: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

In press Rotating and Escalating Credit in the Female Domain: the Sanduq of the Sudan. In Financial Institutions in the Political Economy in Africa, ed. E. Stiansen. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.

In press Marriage and Family in the Sudan. In The International Handbook on Marriages and Families, ed. K. Altergott. Greenwood Press

2011 Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan. In Summoning the Spirits. Possession and Invocation in Contemporary Religion, Andrew Dawson (ed). London: I.B. Tauris.

2010 ‘Sudan’ in the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, edited by Joanne B. Eicher, Vol. 1, Africa, edited by Joanne B. Eicher and Doran H. Ross, pp. 349-357. New York: Oxford University Press.

2009 Zainab’s Story: Slavery, Women and Community in Colonial Sudan. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 38 (1): 33-77.

2007 “Moveable Feast of Signs”: gender in zar in central Sudan. Material Religion 3(1):62-75.

2002 Gender and Medicine in the Sudan. The Afhad Journal 19, 2: 42-58.

2001 Zar. In the Encyclopaedia of African & African-American Religion, ed. Stephen Glazier. Routledge Press.

1999 Possession and Power in Central Sudan: the Case of the Butcher's Wife. In Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa, ed. H. Behrend and U. Luig. Institut fur Afrika-Studien, Mainz. London: James Currey and Madison, WI: U of Wisonsin Press.

1998 The Sudanese. In Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Eastword Publications.

1997 Gender and Alliance in Contemporary Sudan. In Women among Women: New Perspectives on Female Age Hierarchies, ed. J. Dickerson Putman and J. Brown. U of Illinois Press. (Originally appeared in the Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology, 9, 1994).

1995 Zar as Modernization in Contemporary Sudan. Anthropological Quarterly, Spring 1995 (republished 1997, 1999)

1991 The Story of a Box: Study of the Zar Cult in Sennar, Blue Nile Province, Sudan. In Women's Medicine: the Zar Cult in Africa and beyond, ed I.M. Lewis et al. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

1987 Sudan's Shadow Economy: Working Women in Poor Urban Sudan. In Population and Women in Development, ed. Atif A. Saghayroun. Khartoum: Arrow Press.

1984 Women and the Urban Process: a Case Study from al Gul'a, Sennar. Development Studies and Research Centre Seminar Series no. 46, University of Khartoum.

1977 Traditional Trends in Modern Nootka Ceremonies. Arctic Anthropology xiv:1, 25-38.

EDITED COLLECTIONS (which I organized as guest editor)

1995 Possession and Change in Eastern Africa. Anthropological Quarterly special edition, Spring 1995. Introduction by E. Bourguignon

1987 The Sudanese Woman. Selected essays, which I edited and introduced. Graduate College, University of Khartoum, and Ithaca Press: London.