ISBN:
0875806104
,
9780875806105
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 234 Seiten
,
Ill., Kt.
,
23 cm
Parallel Title:
Online version Rasmussen, Susan J., 1949- Those who touch
DDC:
615/.321/08993306626
Keywords:
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
;
Herbal Medicine
;
Ethnobotany
;
Islam
;
Medicine, African Traditional
;
Women
;
Niger
;
Niger
;
Tuareg
;
Frau
;
Ethnomedizin
;
Afrika
;
Tuareg
;
Frau
;
Ethnomedizin
;
Pflanzen
;
Volkskunde
;
Niger
;
Ethnobotanik
;
Ritual
;
Muslimin
;
Schamanin
;
Medizinfrau
;
Heilerin
;
Kräuter
;
Heilpflanzen
;
Volksmedizin
;
Kräuterfrau
;
Ethnologie
;
Islam
Description / 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
Note:
Includes bibliography (p. [203] - 212) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020691.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020691.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020691.html
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