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.