Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropolotical Perspective

by Susan J. Rasmussen

Book Overview

A twenty-five-year veteran of field research in Niger and Mali, anthropologist Susan J. Rasmussen examines the female-dominated practice of herbalism in the seminomadic Muslim communities of Tuareg. Medicine women, known as tinesmegelen, diagnose by touch and treat their patients--mostly women and children--with leaves, bark, and roots from trees associated with ancestral spirits. In addition to healing, they relate oral traditions, offer marital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875806104
• ISBN13: 9780875806105
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher