Dr. Janice P Boddy
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
2002
Academy
Academy of Social Sciences
Discipline
Anthropology / Archaeology
Department
Department of Anthropology
Keywords
Gender, culture, religion (especially Islam), health, historical anthropology
Janice Boddy is a cultural anthropologist internationally renowned for her research on northern Sudan. Her highly sophisticated ethnographic monograph on spirit possession has been referred to as a contemporary classic and is very widely read. She has also conducted extensive ethnohistorical research, producing a rich and highly original study of British colonialism in Sudan.