Janice Boddy
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Janice Boddy is a Canadian anthropologist. As Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Boddy specializes in medical anthropology, religion, gender issues, and colonialism in Sudan and the Middle East. She is the author or co-author of Wombs and Alien Spirits , Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl , and Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan .
Janice Boddy's Published Works
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- Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan (1991) (472)
- SPIRIT POSSESSION REVISITED: Beyond Instrumentality (1994) (300)
- womb as oasis: the symbolic context of Pharaonic circumcision in rural Northern Sudan (1982) (185)
- A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (2001) (138)
- spirits and selves in Northern Sudan: the cultural therapeutics of possession and trance (1988) (96)
- Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan (2007) (70)
- A companion to the anthropology of religion (2013) (55)
- Medically Unnecessary Genital Cutting and the Rights of the Child: Moving Toward Consensus (2019) (54)
- Violence Embodied?: Circumcision, Gender Politics, and Cultural Aesthetics (1998) (48)
- The normal and the aberrant in female genital cutting (2016) (46)
- Body Politics: Continuing the Anticircumcision Crusade (1991) (43)
- The Vienna Art Interest and Art Knowledge Questionnaire (VAIAK): A unified and validated measure of art interest and art knowledge. (2020) (39)
- Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl (1994) (29)
- Civilizing Women (2018) (16)
- Re-thinking the Zero Tolerance Approach to FGM/C: the Debate Around Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (2020) (15)
- Afterword: embodying ethnography (1998) (14)
- Warm, lively, rough? Assessing agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks (2020) (13)
- Comment On the Proposed Dsm-Iv Criteria for Trance and Possession Disorder (1992) (12)
- Clash of Selves: Gender, Personhood, and Human Rights Discourse in Colonial Sudan (2007) (10)
- The Body Nearer the Self (1995) (7)
- Subversive Kinship: The Role of Spirit Possession in Negotiating Social Place in Rural Northern Sudan (1993) (7)
- Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan (1991) (6)
- Colonialism: Bodies under Colonialism (2011) (5)
- The Work of Zâr: Women and Spirit Possession in Northern Sudan (2010) (5)
- Ferocious colors and peaceful lines describing and measuring aesthetic effects (2018) (5)
- Emotional Health Work of Women With Female Genital Cutting Prior to Reproductive Health Care Encounters (2021) (4)
- Managing tradition: ‘Superstition’ and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees (1995) (4)
- 2. Gender Crusades: The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective (2020) (3)
- Writing Aman : The perils and politics of the popular book (1997) (3)
- Spirits and Selves Revisited: Zār and Islam in Northern Sudan (2014) (2)
- Parallel worlds : humans, spirits, and ZAR possession in rural northern Sudan (1981) (2)
- Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society: The Berti of Sudan. LADISLAV HOLY (1994) (2)
- Barbaric Custom and Colonial Science (2006) (2)
- “Just Sitting”, But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan (2018) (1)
- Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the zar Cult in Northern Sudan. (1991) (1)
- Anthropology, Feminism and the Postmodern Context (2021) (1)
- Barbaric Custom and Colonial Science Teaching the Female Body in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (2003) (1)
- How Canadian Law Shapes the Health Care Experiences of Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting/Circumcision and Their Providers: A Disjuncture Between Expectation and Actuality (2022) (1)
- Vienna Art Interest and Art Knowledge Questionnaire (2019) (1)
- Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. THOMAS BUCKLEY and ALMA GOTTLIEB (1989) (0)
- 8. Paradoxes of 'modern' female bodies. (2020) (0)
- Linguistic Anthropology: The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power Among the Uduk of Sudan. Wendy James (1989) (0)
- Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale. (2022) (0)
- 4. Veiled Missionaries and Embattled Christians in Colonial Sudan (2009) (0)
- NATIONALISM AND MEDICAL DISCOURSE (2012) (0)
- OTIENBERG, Simon, BOYHOOD RITUALS IN AN AFRICAN SOCIEIY: An Interpretation (1991) (0)
- Davi Kopenawa's letter to the world (2014) (0)
- Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Qyo Yoruba Religion:Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Qyo Yoruba Religion. (1997) (0)
- Midwifery and traditional birth attendants in transnational perspective (2021) (0)
- Is Red Warm for Everyone? Assessing the Agreement on Aesthetic Effects of Artworks (2019) (0)
- Karen Eriksen PAIGE and Jeffery M. PAIGE, The Politics of Reproductive Ritual, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981. 380 pages, appendices, index. US $8.95 (paper), US $25.00 (cloth) (2021) (0)
- BATTLING THE "BARBAROUS CUSTOM" (2007) (0)
- A Cultural interpretation of advertising (1974) (0)
- Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village. VICTORIA BERNAL (1994) (0)
- CONCLUSION: CIVILIZING WOMEN (2007) (0)
- Reproductive health care appointments: How the institutional organization of obstetric/gynecological work shapes the experiences of women with female genital cutting in Toronto, Canada (2023) (0)
- Winkler, Hans Alexander: Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt. A Study of Spirit Possession (2010) (0)
- Possession cults--or culture (1994) (0)
- Othered and Disoriented in No Man’s Land (2021) (0)
- INTRODUCTION: Culture in Question (2016) (0)
- Zar, A History of (2021) (0)
- Legislating Against Culture (2008) (0)
- Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice. M. E. Combs‐Schilling. (1992) (0)
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