Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford
  • Bluesky
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
Browse Books
Memories of a Sudanese Community: Better than Musalsal

View Table of Contents




See Related
Anthropology Journals

Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

Memories of a Sudanese Community

Better than Musalsal

Susan M. Kenyon

318 pages, 23 figs, index, bibliog.

ISBN  978-1-80768-153-1 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2027)

eISBN 978-1-80768-154-8 eBook


View CartYour country: - edit Buy the eBook from these vendorsRecommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

This was a delightful and deeply insightful read. Susan Kenyon is a renowned scholar of women’s lives, with a special focus on religious experience and, more specifically, zar possession. Lesley A. Sharp, Columbia University

Description

Between 1979 and 1981, anthropologist Susan Kenyon lived in al-Gul'a, a district of Sennar, Sudan, where women worked to create community among migrants and marginalized peoples. Drawing on her experiences, this book explores everyday life through ceremonies, spirit possession, market-shopping, cooking and other social practices. Focusing on the relationships and activities that shaped neighbourhood life, it offers insights into how ordinary Sudanese people build and sustain communities. Against the backdrop of Sudan's ongoing conflict and displacement, the study highlights the enduring importance of sharing material, social and intellectual resources in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds.

Susan M. Kenyon is professor emerita of Anthropology at Butler University, Indianapolis. In addition to her long-term interests in Sudan she has carried out research in British Columbia, Indonesia and Costa Rica. She is the author of The Kyuquot Way: A Study of a West Coast (Nootkan) Community (University of Ottawa Press, 1980), Five Women of Sennar: Culture and Change in Central Sudan (Waveland Pr Inc, 2004), Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan: The Red Wind of Sennar and numerous publications (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).


Subject: Anthropology (General)Development Studies
Area: Africa


Contents

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend Memories of a Sudanese Community Better than Musalsal for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $135.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.