How Long to Read Wombs and Alien Spirits

How Long Does it Take to Read Wombs and Alien Spirits?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 13 minutes to read Wombs and Alien Spirits by Janice Boddy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Muslim village in northern Sudan, Wombs and Alien Spirits explores the zâr cult, the most widely practiced traditional healing cult in Africa. Adherents of the cult are usually women with marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers. Through the woman, the spirit makes demands upon her husband and family and makes provocative comments on village issues, such as the increasing influence of formal Islam or encroaching Western economic domination. In accommodating the spirits, the women are able metaphorically to reformulate everyday discourse to portray consciousness of their own subordination. Janice Boddy examines the moral universe of the village, discussing female circumcision, personhood, kinship, and bodily integrity, then describes the workings of the cult and the effect of possession on the lives of men as well as women. She suggests that spirit possession is a feminist discourse, though a veiled and allegorical one, on women's objectification and subordination. Additionally, the spirit world acts as a foil for village life in the context of rapid historical change and as such provides a focus for cultural resistance that is particularly, though not exclusively, relevant to women.

How long is Wombs and Alien Spirits?

Wombs and Alien Spirits by Janice Boddy is 425 pages long, and a total of 108,375 words.

This makes it 143% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Wombs and Alien Spirits Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 52 minutes to read Wombs and Alien Spirits aloud.

What Reading Level is Wombs and Alien Spirits?

Wombs and Alien Spirits is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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