Healing in community : medicine, contested terrains, and cultural encounters among the Tuareg / Susan Rasmussen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rasmussen, Susan J., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuaregs--Medicine.

Tuaregs.

Tuaregs--Health and hygiene.

Traditional medicine--Niger--Aïr Region.

Traditional medicine.

Healing--Niger--Aïr Region.

Healing.

Medical anthropology--Niger--Aïr Region.

Medical anthropology.

Aïr Region (Niger)--Social life and customs.

Aïr Region (Niger).

Niger--Aïr Region.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.

Summary:

Documents Tuareg responses to medicine and healing in northern Niger's current predicament of ecological disaster, economic crisis, and political tensions.

Contents:

Cultural and Historical Overview 1

Part I. Into the Ethnographic Space of Tuareg Medicine: Healing in Multiple Systems of Power and Symbolism 19

Chapter 1. Remembered Traumas 21

Chapter 2. At the Borders and Crossroads of Medical Knowledge and Power: Personal/Bodily Transformations and Healing in Community 59

Part II. Into the Epistemological Space of Tuareg Medicine: Modalities and Signs in Medical Discourse and Practice 99

Chapter 3. Medicine as a System of Communication: The Olfactory Mode and Aroma in Tuareg Ritual Healing 101

Chapter 4. Almsgiving and Sacrifice in the Community of Healing 133

Chapter 5. The Medical Space of Alterity 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-228) and index.

ISBN:

0897897617

OCLC:

45086871