Download or read book The Sudanese Zār Ṭumbura Cult written by G. P. Makris and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a historically-sensitive ethnography of the zar tumbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan. It considers the history and transformations of tumbura, from the nineteenth-century slaving era through to the present post-Islamist autocracy"--