'Beyond Bodies is an engrossing, enlightening, and eminently readable study that effectively unsettles certain Euro-American commonplaces about gender, symbolism, and power. It is tightly focused and based on solid research, demonstrating a remarkable knowledge of the literature on gender and rain-making. A unique and rich ethnography, it should appeal to Africanists and students of gender and religion.'-Adeline Masquelier, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University