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Periodical articleRossé, Élisabeth (2021)
See this publicationPossession par esprit tromba et reconfiguration de rituels ancestraux en contexte de mobilité à Madagascar: Le cas de migrants tandroy, entre Toliara et leur terre ancestrale
Cahiers d'études africaines. Volume 241. p. 115-140.

BookFavre-Chatagny, Denise (2016)
Le captage à Madagascar: guérir par le verbe
Paris: L'Harmattan. 251p.

Periodical articleRezácová, Vendula (2016)
'The ancestors are beating us': men, migration and spirit possession in South Africa
Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society. Volume 4 #1. p. 107-129.

Periodical articleGunning, Dave (2015)
See this publicationDissociation, spirit possession, and the languages of trauma in some recent African-British novels
Abstract presentResearch in African Literatures. Volume 46 #4. p. 119-132.

Dissertation / thesisDuijl, Marjolein van (2014)
Spirits, devils and trauma: dissociation in south-west Uganda
Maastricht: Boekenplan. 213p.

Periodical articleLarsen, Kjersti (2014)
See this publicationBodily selves: identity and shared realities among humans and spirits in Zanzibar
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 44 #1. p. 5-27.

BookSoko, Boston (2014)
Vimbuza the healing dance of Northern Malawi
Zomba: Imabili Indigenous Knowledge Publications. Imabali text #4. 261p.

Periodical articleAbdou, Mohamed (2013)
Le rite de la danse du cadavre et du transfert des génies d'un défunt chez les Baatombu du Nord-Bénin
Abstract presentJournal des africanistes. Volume 83 #2. p. 142-162.

Periodical articleSum, Maisie (2013)
Music for the unseen: interaction between two realms during a Gnawa 'lila'
African Music Journal. Volume 9 #3. p. 151-182.

Periodical articleDube, Zorodzai (2012)
See this publicationCasting out demons in Zimbabwe: a coded political posturing
Abstract presentExchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context. Volume 41 #4. p. 352-363.

Periodical articleLuongo, Katherine (2012)
Prophecy, possession, and politics: negotiating the supernatural in 20th century Machakos, Kenya
Abstract presentInternational Journal of African Historical Studies. Volume 45 #2. p. 191-216.

BookNielssen, Hilde (2012)
Ritual imagination: a study of tromba possession among the Betsimisaraka in eastern Madagascar
Leiden: Brill. Studies on religion in Africa 40. 326p.

Periodical articleLuedke, Tracy (2011)
See this publicationIntimacy and alterity: prophetic selves and spirit others in central Mozambique
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 41 #2. p. 154-179.

BookMackenrodt, Lisa (2011)
Swahili spirit possession and Islamic healing in contemporary Tanzania: the Jinn fly on Friday
Hamburg: Kovac. Fern/Sehen: Perspektiven der Sozialanthropologie #4. 216p.

Dissertation / thesisMouzard, Thomas (2011)
Territoire, trajectoire, réseau: créativité rituelle populaire, identification et État postcolonial (une triple étude de cas malgache)
519p.

Periodical articlePerman, Tony (2011)
See this publicationAwakening spirits: the ontology of spirit, self, and society in Ndau spirit possession practices in Zimbabwe
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 41 #1. p. 59-92.

Periodical articlePlancke, Carine (2011)
See this publicationThe spirit's wish: possession trance and female power among the Punu of Congo-Brazzaville
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 41 #4. p. 366-395.

Periodical articleVenkatachalam, Meera (2011)
See this publicationBetween the umbrella and the elephant: elections, ethnic negotiations and the politics of spirit possession in Teshi, Accra
Abstract presentAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute. Volume 81 #2. p. 248-268.

Periodical articleBaines, Erin (2010)
See this publicationSpirits and social reconstruction after mass violence: rethinking transitional justice
Abstract presentAfrican Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society. Volume 109 #436. p. 409-430.

Dissertation / thesisCeriana Mayneri, Andrea (2010)
See this publicationLa rhétorique de la dépossession: ou l'imaginaire de la sorcellerie chez les Banda de la République centrafricaine
Aix-en-Marseille: Université Aix-Marseille I / Université de Provence. 459p.

BookJankowsky, Richard C. (2010)
Stambeli: music, trance, and alterity in Tunisia
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. 237p.

Periodical articleMutekwa, Anias (2010)
See this publicationThe avenging spirit: mapping an ambivalent spirituality in Zimbabwean literature in English
Abstract presentAfrican Studies. Volume 69 #1. p. 161-176.

Dissertation / thesisPasian, Michela (2010)
Anthropologie du rituel de possession Bori en milieu Hawsa au Niger: quand les génies cohabitent avec Allah
Paris: L'Harmattan. Collection anthropologie critique. 265p.

Periodical articleSkelton, Colin (2010)
Performing the Holy Spirit: ritualised manifestations of faith in an African Independent Church
Abstract presentJournal for the Study of Religion. Volume 23 #1-2. p. 151-172.

Periodical articleTidjani Alou, Antoinette (2010)
Ancestors from the East, spirits from the West: surviving and reconfiguring the exogenous violence of global encounters in the Sahel
Abstract presentJournal des africanistes. Volume 80 #1-2. p. 75-92.

Periodical articleMiyawaki, Yukio (2009)
See this publicationConstructing a new imagined space: idioms of alien cultures in the 'Ayana' possession cults of the Hor in South Omo
Nilo-Ethiopian Studies. #13. p. 17-32.

Periodical articleNgoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa (2009)
Recovering the tongue: memorializing grieved women through spirit possession and ritual in Zimbabwean literature
African Identities. Volume 7 #4. p. 451-461.

Periodical articlePennacini, Cecilia (2009)
See this publicationReligious mobility and body language in Kubandwa possession cults
Abstract presentJournal of Eastern African Studies. Volume 3 #2. p. 333-349.

Dissertation / thesisSlegh, Henny (2009)
See this publicationBetween spirits and rights: social navigation of women in Southern Mozambique
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 73p.

Periodical articleSpadola, Emilio (2009)
See this publicationWriting cures: religious and communicative authority in late modern Morocco
The Journal of North African Studies. Volume 14 #2. p. 155-168.

Periodical articleWotogbe-Weneka, Wellington O. (2009)
Water symbolism in African possession cult of the Ikwerre people of north-eastern Niger Delta
Abstract presentOrita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies. Volume 41 #2. p. 46-55.

Periodical articleBamoenela Hando, Léonard; Litho Gesende, Grégoire (2008)
Le culte de possession chez les peuples de Lomami-Aruwimi
Cahiers de langues et cultures, Série ordinaire. #3. p. 180-191.

Periodical articleKodesh, Neil (2008)
See this publicationNetworks of knowledge: clanship and collective well-being in Buganda
Abstract presentThe Journal of African History. Volume 49 #2. p. 197-216.

Periodical articleNdiaye, Lamine (2008)
La place du sacré dans le rituel thérapeutique négro-africain
Abstract presentÉthiopiques: revue socialiste de culture négro-africaine. #81. p. 203-218.

BookAka, Konin (2007)
See this publicationLa vie musicale chez les Agni-N'dénéan (région est de la Côte d'Ivoire)
Tervuren: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale. 87p.

Periodical articleBacuez, Pascal (2007)
Djinns et sorcellerie dans la société swahili
Abstract presentJournal des africanistes. Volume 77 #1. p. 7-27.

Periodical articleBallarin, Marie-Pierre (2007)
See this publicationHow spirits travel along the western Indian Ocean rims: the example of the Sakalava 'tromba' from north-western Madagascar (nineteenth-twentieth centuries)
Abstract presentAzania: Archaeological Research in Africa. Volume 42. p. 53-67.

Dissertation / thesisMaarouf, Mohammed (2007)
Jinn eviction as a discourse of power: a multidisciplinary approach to Moroccan magical beliefs and practices
Leiden: Brill. Islam in Africa #8. 337p.

BookMajdouli, Zineb (2007)
Trajectoires des musiciens Gnawa: approche ethnographique des cérémonies domestiques et des festivals de Musiques du monde
Paris: L'Harmattan. Arts de la piste et de la rue. 242p.

Periodical articleO'Brien, Susan M. (2007)
La charia contestée: démocratie, débat et diversité musulmane dans les 'États charia' du Nigeria
Abstract presentPolitique africaine. #106. p. 46-68.

BookOkagbue, Osita (2007)
African theatres and performances
London: Routledge. Theatres of the world. 200p.

Periodical articleRezácová, Vendula (2007)
Healing and the problem of resistance: the case of spirit possession in the Venda-speaking region of South Africa
Viva Africa. p. 107-111.

Periodical articleAnderson, Allan (2006)
See this publicationExorcism and conversion to African Pentecostalism
Abstract presentExchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context. Volume 35 #1. p. 116-133.

Periodical articleFontein, Joost (2006)
See this publicationShared Legacies of the War: Spirit Mediums and War Veterans in Southern Zimbabwe
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 36 #2. p. 167-199.

Periodical articleSullivan, Joanna (2005)
See this publicationExploring Bori as a Site of Myth in Hausa Culture
Abstract presentJournal of African Cultural Studies. Volume 17 #2. p. 271-282.

BookKim, Caleb Chul-Soo (2004)
Islam among the Swahili in East Africa
Nairobi, Kenya: Acton Publishers. African religion in global contexts. 224p.

Periodical articleKurcz, Maciej (2004)
The contemporary Dhikr: different aspects of the Sudanese religious expression
Africana Bulletin. #52. p. 67-83.

Periodical articleMcIntosh, Janet (2004)
See this publicationReluctant Muslims: Embodied Hegemony and Moral Resistance in a Giriama Spirit Possession Complex
Abstract presentJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Volume 10 #1. March. p. 91-112.

Periodical articleOsmond, Thomas (2004)
Possession et stratégies de représentation chez les Oromo de l'Ouest Choan (Ethiopie): le cas du Mo'aata
Annales d'Éthiopie. Volume 20. p. 221-237.

BookClaisse, Pierre-Alain (2003)
Les Gnawa marocains de tradition loyaliste
Paris: L'Harmattan. Histoire et perspectives méditerranéennes. 186p.

Periodical articleFee, Sarah; Gueunier, Noël J. (2003)
Le vocabulaire des Doany de l'Androy: langage des esprits et mots de l'étranger dans un culte de possession du sud de Madagascar
Abstract presentÉtudes océan Indien. #35-36. p. 225-244.

Periodical articleParish, Jane (2003)
See this publicationAntiwitchcraft Shrines among the Akan: Possession and the Gathering of Knowledge
Abstract presentAfrican Studies Review. Volume 46 #3. December. p. 17-34.

Periodical articleParle, Julie (2003)
See this publicationWitchcraft or Madness? The Amandiki of Zululand, 1894-1914
Abstract presentJournal of Southern African Studies. Volume 29 #1. March. p. 105-132.

BookAhmed, A. Chanfi (2002)
Ngoma et mission islamique (Da'wa) aux Comores et en Afrique orientale: une approche anthropologique
Paris: L'Harmattan. 266p.

Periodical articleBouffart-Klein, Sophie (2002)
Les 'madjini' à Mayotte
Abstract presentÉtudes océan Indien. #33-34. p. 221-241.

BookKrasberg, Ulrike (2002)
Die Ekstasetänzerinnen von Sîdî Mustafa: eine theater-ethnologische Untersuchung
Berlin: Reimer. 244p.

Book chapterLambek, Michael (2002)
Nuriaty, the saint and the Sultan: virtuous subject and subjective virtuoso of the postmodern colony
Abstract presentIn: Postcolonial subjectivities in Africa. p. 25-43.

Periodical articleMasquelier, Adeline M. (2002)
From hostage to host: Confessions of a spirit medium in Niger
Abstract presentEthos. Volume 30 #1. p. 49-76.

Periodical articlePalmisano, Antonio Luigi (2002)
See this publicationEsercizi in mistica pagana: suono e parola divina nei culti 'zar' dell'Etiopia
Abstract presentAfrica: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione. Volume 57 #4. p. 471-501.

Dissertation / thesisKim, C.C. (2001)
Supernaturalism in Swahili Islam with special reference to the therapeutic cults of jinn possession
Ph.D. dissertation. Fuller Graduate Schools.

Book chapterLarsen, Kjersti (2001)
Spirit possession as oral history: Negotiating Islam and social status. The case of Zanzibar
In: Scarcia Amoretti, B. (ed.), Islam in East Africa. New sources (Archives. Manuscripts and written historical sources. Oral history, Archaeology). International colloquium, Rome, 2-4 December 1999. Roma: Herder. p. 275-296.

BookMasquelier, Adeline M. (2001)
Prayer has spoiled everything: Possession, power, and identity in an Islamic town of Niger
Durham: Duke University Press. 348p.

Periodical articleO'Brien, Susan M. (2001)
Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria
Abstract presentInterventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Volume 3 #2. p. 222-241.

Periodical articleSmith, James Howard (2001)
See this publicationOf Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education and Their Enchantments in Neo-Liberal Kenya
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 31 #4. p. 427-456.

Periodical articleSoumana, Amadou (2001)
Le culte de possession par les génies holley au Niger: une transgression de l'éthique islamique par le biais thérapeutique
Abstract presentÉthiopiques: revue socialiste de culture négro-africaine. #66-67. p. 123-130.

BookMakris, G.P. (2000)
Changing masters: Spirit possession and identity construction among slave descendants and other subordinates in the Sudan
Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 432p.

Dissertation / thesisO'Brien, S. (2000)
Power and paradox in Hausa bori: Discourses of gender, healing and Islamic tradition in Northern Nigeria
Ph.D. dissertation. University of Wisconsin. 299p.

Dissertation / thesisSengers, Gerda Cornelia (2000)
Vrouwen en demonen: Zar en korangenezing in hedendaags Egypte
Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. 269p.

BookBehrend, Heike; Luig, Ute (eds.) (1999)
Spirit possession: modernity & power in Africa
Abstract presentOxford: Currey. 170p.

Book chapterColleyn, Jean-Paul (1999)
Horse, hunter & messenger: the possessed men of the Nya cult in Mali
Abstract presentIn: Spirit possession, modernity & power in Africa / ed. by Heike Behrend & Ute Luig. - Oxford [etc.]: James Currey [etc.]. p. 68-78.

Book chapterKenyon, Susan M. (1999)
The Case of the Butcher's Wife: Illness, Possession and Power in Central Sudan
Abstract presentIn: Spirit possession: modernity & power in Africa. p. 89-108.

Periodical articleLandau, Paul S. (1999)
See this publicationThe Spirit of God, Pigs and Demons: The 'Samuelites' of Southern Africa
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 29 #3. p. 313-340.

Book chapterMasquelier, Adeline (1999)
The invention of anti-tradition: Dodo spirits in southern Niger
Abstract presentIn: Spirit possession, modernity & power in Africa / ed. by Heike Behrend & Ute Luig. - Oxford [etc.]: James Currey [etc.]. p. 34-49.

Periodical articleMsosa, Watson (1999)
From cultural aesthetic to performance technique: continuities and contrasts in improvisational milieux of 'vimbuza' and jazz
Abstract presentJournal of Humanities. #13. p. 47-58.

BookNisula, T. (1999)
Everyday spirits and medical interventions: Ethnographic and historical notes on therapeutic conventions in Zanzibar Town
Saarijärvi: Finnish Anthropological Society.

Periodical articleO'Brien, Susan (1999)
See this publicationPilgrimage, Power, and Identity: The Role of the Hajj in the Lives of Nigerian Hausa Bori Adepts
Abstract presentAfrica Today. Volume 46 #3-4. Summer/Fall. p. 11-40.

Book chapterSousa, Alexandra O. de (1999)
Defunct Women: Possession among the Bijagós Islanders
In: Spirit possession: modernity & power in Africa. p. 81-88.

Periodical articleSpaulding, Jay (1999)
The 'Bum': A Berta River Spirit and the Women Who Love Her
Sudan Notes and Records. #3. p. 45-50.

BookChlyeh, Abdelhafid (1998)
Les Gnaoua du Maroc: itinéraires initiatiques, transe et possession
Grenoble: Pensée sauvage. 158p.

Periodical articleDumas-Champion, Françoise (1998)
'Faire des deux côtés, l'un papa, l'autre maman': regard sur des itinéraires religieux à l'île de la Réunion
Abstract presentJournal des africanistes. Volume 68 #1-2. p. 99-122.

Periodical articleWastiau, Boris (1998)
See this publicationArt et guérison: les rites de possession 'mahamba' liés à la fécondité chez les Luvale de Zambie
Abstract presentAfrika Focus. Volume 14 #1. p. 99-115.

Periodical articleHonwana, Alcinda (1997-1998)
Spirit Possession and the Politics of Religious Healing in Mozambique
Afrika Zamani: revue annuelle d'histoire africaine = Annual Journal of African History. #5-6. p. 355-374.

Periodical articleLewis, Ioan M. (1997)
See this publicationThe Shaman's Quest in Africa
Abstract presentCahiers d'études africaines. Volume 37 #145. p. 119-135.

Book chapterMercier, J. (1997)
Les dieux naissent bâtards: dynamique de la possession polythéiste en Ethiopie
Abstract presentIn: Surgy, A.d. (ed.), Religion et pratiques de puissance. Paris: L'Harmattan. p. 95-104.

Dissertation / thesisAbdelsalam, S. (1996)
Techniques thérapeutiques islamique: le voleur et le visiteur. Confrontation entre deux systèmes thérapeutiques dans le Soudan (region de Gazira) - celui du zar et celui du djinn
thèse de doctorat. Université Paris-VII. 501p.

Periodical articleColleyn, Jean-Paul (1996)
See this publicationEntre les dieux et les hommes
Abstract presentCahiers d'études africaines. Volume 36 #144. p. 723-738.

Periodical articleHecht, Elisabeth-Dorothea (1996)
See this publicationSpirit Possession Cults in a Comparative Perspective: A Modern Amhara Village and Ancient Greece
Abstract presentAfrican Study Monographs. Volume 17 #1. p. 1-34.

Periodical articleMakris, G.P. (1996)
See this publicationSlavery, Possession and History: The Construction of the Self among Slave Descendants in the Sudan
Abstract presentAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute. Volume 66 #2. p. 159-182.

Book chapterMasquelier, Adeline (1996)
Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in 'Bori' (Southern Niger)
Abstract presentIn: Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. p. 66-93.

Periodical articleMercier, Jacques (1996)
See this publicationLes métaphores nuptiale et royale du zar: contributions à l'étude critique de la relation entre le dieu et son adepte dans les cultes de possession
Abstract presentNortheast African Studies. Volume 3 #2. p. 127-148.

Periodical articleSembereka, George (1996)
See this publicationThe place of 'gule wamkulu' in dreams attributed to spirits, nominal reincarnation and spirit possession: the Nankumba experience
Abstract presentThe Society of Malawi Journal. Volume 49 #1. p. 1-31.

Periodical articleKenyon, S.M. (1995)
Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan
Anthropological Quarterly. Volume 68 #2. p. 107-120.

Dissertation / thesisLarsen, Kjersti (1995)
Where humans and spirits meet: Incorporating difference and experiencing otherness in Zanzibar Town
Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oslo.

Periodical articleMasquelier, Adeline M. (1995)
See this publicationConsumption, Prostitution, and Reproduction: The Poetics of Sweetness in Bori
Abstract presentAmerican Ethnologist. Volume 22 #4. November. p. 883-906.

Periodical articleRahamefy-Ramarolahy, Adolphe (1995)
Une thérapeutique ambiguë: apprivoiser les ancêtres ou exorcer les démons?
Abstract presentÉtudes océan Indien. #19. p. 71-76.

BookRasmussen, Susan J. (1995)
Spirit possession and personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg
Abstract presentCambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology #94. 178p.

BookStoller, Paul (1995)
Embodying colonial memories: spirit possession, power and the Hauka in West Africa
Abstract presentNew York: Routledge. 226p.

Periodical articleMasquelier, Adeline M. (1994)
See this publicationLightning, Death and the Avenging Spirits: Bori Values in a Muslim World
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 24 #1. February. p. 2-51.

Periodical articleMatory, James Lorand (1994)
See this publicationRival Empires: Islam and the Religions of Spirit Possession among the Oyo-Yoruba
American Ethnologist. Volume 21 #3. August. p. 495-515.

Periodical articleRasmussen, Susan J. (1994)
See this publicationThe 'Head Dance', Contested Self, and Art as a Balancing Act in Tuareg Spirit Possession
Abstract presentAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute. Volume 64 #1. p. 74-98.

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