Janice Boddy is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her books include Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan (1989); Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl (1994); and Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan (2007).
Michael Lambek is Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His books include
Human Spirits (1981, 2009);
Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession (1993);
The Weight of the Past (2002); and
Ordinary Ethics (2010). He is also the editor of
A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).