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RASMUSSEN Susan J.

Those Who Touch : Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective

Northern Illinois University Press - DeKalb, Illinois - 2006
ISBN: 9780875806105
246 p. - 15,2 x 22,9 cm

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 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 counseling, protect patients against potential domestic violence, and practice divination.

 
By earning the trust of nearly twenty medicine women over the course of her fieldwork, Rasmussen is able to provide an in-depth profile of these healers and their beliefs. The women come from diverse backgrounds, many of noble origins. Whereas they must be mothers, most do not practice their profession fully until their post-childbearing years. Rasmussen traces the mythical-historical origins of female herbalism and the initiation process for entering the profession. Significantly, she investigates the powerful relationships between medicine women and various authorities: Islamic leaders, state officials, and the medical staff of nongovernment clinics.
 
Rasmussen draws the reader into this fascinating world of medicine women through interviews, guided conversations, life histories, illustrative case studies, and, most importantly, the words of the healers and their patients. As a participant-observer, she shares her own experiences with descriptions of the treatments she herself received. Then, moving from a focused analysis to a broader contextual frame, she addresses central questions in anthropology about gender, knowledge, and the interface between religion and medicine.
Sommaire:
Deconstructing and Recasting Female Healing: Preliminary Remarks

PART ONE: Departures—Herbal Medicine and Local and Authoritative Systems of Thought
1. The Vexing Problem of Difference and Classifications in Anthropology and the Local Ethnographic Setting
2. Herbalism, Medicine, and Curing—Medicine Women's Concepts of Wellness, Illness, and Healing

PART TWO: Touch and Word—Learning and Transmitting Medicine
3. Touch, Body, and Senses
4. Word and Deed—Oral Traditions and the Mythico-History of Herbal Medicine
5. Medicine Women, Gender, and Physical and Social Reproduction over the Life Course
6. Natural Imagery (Arboreal Tropes) in Herbalism—Plant Uses in Nature and Culture

PART THREE: Medicine Women and Wider Systems of Power
7. Medicine Women, Sacred Places, and Al Baraka Ritual Benediction
8. Medicine Women and Islam—Relations with Marabouts
9. Medicine Women and Other "Shamans"—Herbalism, the Spirits of the Wild, Divination, and Power
10. Changes in the Wind—Medicine Women's Relations with Established Biomedicine

Conclusions / Herbal Healing, Modes of Thought, and Gender
Susan J. Rasmussen est professeur d'anthropologie au department of Comparative Cultural Studies de l'université de Houston. Ses recherches portent sur les communautés touareg du Nord Niger et Mali ainsi que sur les immigrés en France.
 

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