Those who touch : Tuareg medicine women in anthropological perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rasmussen, Susan J., 1949-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2006]
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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.