Research Catalog

Title

Those who touch : Tuareg medicine women in anthropological perspective / Susan J. Rasmussen.

Author

Rasmussen, Susan J., 1949-

Publication

DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2006.

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Description

xii, 234 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Subject

• Women, Tuareg > Medicine
• Women, Tuareg > Ethnobotany
• Women, Tuareg > Rites and ceremonies
• Muslim women > Niger
• Women shamans > Niger
• Women healers > Niger
• Herbs > Therapeutic use > Niger
• Traditional medicine > Niger

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.

Contents

The vexing problem of difference and classifications in anthropology and the local ethnographic setting -- Herbalism, medicine, and curing : medicine women's concepts of wellness, illness, and healing -- Touch, body, and senses -- Word and deed: oral traditions and the mythico-history of herbal medicine -- Medicine women, gender, and physical and social reproduction over the life course -- Natural imagery (arboreal tropes) in herbalism : plant uses in nature and culture -- Medicine women, sacred places, and Al Baraka ritual benediction -- Medicine women and Islam : relations with marabouts -- Medicine women and other "shamans" : herbalism, the spirits of the wild, divination, and power -- Changes in the wind : medicine women's relations with established biomedicine -- Herbal healing, modes of thought, and gender.

Call Number

JFE 06-7614

ISBN

0875806104 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005020691
• 9780875806105

OCLC

61151474

Author

Rasmussen, Susan J., 1949-

Title

Those who touch : Tuareg medicine women in anthropological perspective / Susan J. Rasmussen.

Imprint

DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.

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Other Standard Identifier

9780875806105

Research Call Number

JFE 06-7614